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| WHO RUNS IN THE EURO ELECTIONS? 09/04/2009 |
| (2009-04-09) |
| Last updated: 2009-04-09 15:56 EET |
Romania's elections for the European Parliament due to take place on the 7th June are the first electoral test after last year's legislative elections and the last before the presidential elections in autumn. Parties have already registered their candidate lists. One surprise so far is the fact that George Becali, one of the biggest property owners in the country, who has recently been arrested for instigating the kidnapping of several persons, will run for the non-parliamentary, populist nationalist Greater Romania Party. From his prison cell, Becali, who is himself the founder of a party with a similar orientation, has accepted the invitation of the Greater Romania Party leader Corneliu Vadim Tudor to join hands and represent Romania in Brussels. The biggest rivals until not so long ago, the two are the eccentric protagonists of a desperate attempt to resurrect the nationalist movement and the living proof that, in Bucharest, political enemies can kiss and make up at any time.
Another surprising move is to some extent the somehow risky decision of the president's youngest daughter, Elena Basescu. To thwart all accusations of nepotism levelled at the Liberal Democratic Party, she resigned from the party and has decided to run as an independent. There is a possibility that she may fail to enter the European Parliament, and the party close to Traian Basescu, which is leading in opinion polls, to lose precious votes. The Liberal Democrats' list is headed by the party deputy president Theodor Stolojan, while Adrian Severin, a well-known figure on the European arena, tops the list of the Social Democrats. We remind you that the two parties are partners in the coalition government.
As far as the opposition is concerned, the National Liberal Party has put Norica Nicolai at the top of its list, and the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania has offered the pastor Laszlo Tokes, a strong supporter of the ethnic Hungarians' autonomy, the first position on its list, to concentrate all the votes of the minority. While parties have announced their candidates, they have not yet made public their political programmes. Commentators say the election campaign will fail to tackle the European issues and focus instead on domestic problems.
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