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| MEDIA HEADLINES 31/03/09 |
| (2009-03-31) |
| Last updated: 2009-04-01 21:26 EET |
Examples include the former independent minister of justice Monica Macovei, who decided to enroll in the party after all, and journalist Traian Ungureanu. The newspaper EVENIMENTUL ZILEI makes bitter comments on Monica Macovei’s candidacy, which they regard as a reward for her services to president Traian Basescu and the Liberal Democratic Party, and as a prize offered to her in exchange for having her image endorse one of post-1989 Romania’s frauds: the fight against the rotten system.
Such credible public figures, intended to win over the voters, are followed in the list by party proteges. The Social Democrats, in exchange, open their list with a name that has undeniable weight at an European level: former foreign minister Adrian Severin. One issue that caught the attention of the media however was the dispute between party president Mircea Geoana and the former head of state, Ion Iliescu, regarding the candidacy of young Lavinia Sandru, the chief of a pocket-sized populist party.
According to the daily COTIDIANUL, Iliescu has reportedly criticised Geoana, urging him to stop bringing mercenaries into the party. An outraged Iliescu also said, according to the newspaper ZIUA, that the Social Democrats might just as well support the candidacy of Elena Basescu, daughter to the party’s arch-enemy, president Traian Basescu. Elena Basescu chose to run independently, so as to spare the Liberal Democratic Party of nepotism accusations.
But the biggest surprises have been provided by the main opposition party, the National Liberal Party. The newspaper ADEVARUL comments that the big losers are economist Daniel Daianu, MEP, and the former foreign minister Adrian Cioroianu. In the former case, the new Liberal president Crin Antonescu put forth major political and economic policy differences between Daianu and the official party line.
As for Cioroianu, the official explanation of the party (but one which the former minister has denied) is that Cioroianu did not accept what he regarded as a non-eligible place on the party’s candidate list. The Liberal list of candidates is topped by party vice-president Norica Nicolai, whose candidacy is viewed as a compensation for her failure to win a seat in the Romanian parliament in 2008.
Last, but not least, the newspaper ROMANIA LIBERA notices a strange occurrence. Taking part in the electoral campaign for the European Parliament will be both the stern ex-minister of justice Monica Macovei, running for the Liberal Democratic Party, and the former minister of the economy Codrut Seres, who was recently prosecuted for treason, but who was nominated by the Conservative Party as a possible candidate running on the Social Democrats’ list.
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