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| Last updated: 2007-05-21 14:10 EET |
“Romanians rejected on Saturday a move by parliament to impeach reformist President Traian Basescu in a referendum which gives him a mandate to revive his anti-corruption drive” -REUTERS news agency concludes, giving wide coverage to the referendum on the impeachment of Romania’s president just like all major news agencies, TV channels and international daily papers, from FRANCE PRESS to AL JAZEERA. REUTERS also consider the results of the referendum (75% against and only 25% in favour of the impeachment) are humiliating for the initiators of the impeachment process, the Liberals of Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu, their partners in the cabinet, the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania and their conjectural allies in the Social-Democratic and populist opposition.
ASSOCIATED PRESS writes that the severe political crisis in Bucharest started with a conflict between the president and the prime minister, former allies in the 2004 elections. In turn, the BBC estimates the referendum might not be enough to put an end to the crisis and that Basescu, even after his victory, will continue to be confronted with his opponents in parliament. DEUTSCHE WELLE, too, believes political tensions in Bucharest will not vanish, but it agrees that Basescu scored a new victory, more evident than that of 2004, a victory which gives him legitimacy.” “The Polls against the plague of corruption”-headlines the Spanish daily EL PAIS, adding that the political deadlock is nothing but a result of the symbiotic coexistence between the political class and the so called oligarchs targeted by the president’s anti-corruption campaign.
In the neighboring Republic of Moldova ( a former Soviet state with a predominantly Romanian speaking population), where hundreds of thousands of people are holding or applying for Romanian citizenship, the press also gives coverage to the results of the referendum. The official newspaper of the Romania-phobic communist government, MOLDOVA SUVERANA, speculates, with undisguised delight, that the oligarchs in Bucharest proved the Romanian president and the whole of Europe that if they want they have the money to buy the favour of 322 MPS, to suspend the head of state. In exchange, in the paper FLUX, the leader of the pro-western Christian Democratic opposition, Iurie Rosca, says, in an article published under a photo featuring him shaking hands with Basescu, that his adversaries are “remnants of the old communist system and of the former political police, the Securitate, groupings which, after the December 1989 Revolution turned themselves into oligarchs, which are a threat to Romania’s democratic system.”
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