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| A DIFFICULT TEST FOR THE RULING COALITION 28/07/2009 |
| (2009-07-28) |
| Last updated: 2009-07-29 15:14 EET |
Contracts negotiated on e-mail and planned by the ministry, arranged tenders, fictitious fax correspondence, exaggerated prices – these are all part of a report by the National Anticorruption Directorate prosecutors related to the Youth Day events held in Romania on the 2nd of May.
The investigation which first sought to establish how the exorbitant sum of 700,000 euros could be spent on beach concerts, revealed one irregularity after another. The youth and sports minister at the time, Monica Iacob Ridzi, who has resigned in the meantime over the scandal, turned out not to be ignorant of these irregularities. The general prosecutors has requested the start of a criminal investigation against Iacob Ridzi, who is accused of abuse of office, intellectual fraud and instigation to erase information, and Parliament on Monday approved the request with a large majority. Speaking before the Chamber of Deputies, Monica Iacob Ridzi continued to defend her innocence:
“I believe in my innocence and I intend to prove it in court. Neither politicians, nor political commentators have the right to pass judgments. The coalition of all political and media forces against a politician suspected of committing something illegal could be a commendable gesture, with the exception that this never happens in the case of dignitaries or former dignitaries from the Social Democratic Party or the Liberal Party.”
Iacob Ridzi is not the only minister from the right wing, pro-presidential Liberal Democratic Party who is scrutinised by the anticorruption investigators. The tourism minister Elena Udrea is also under the magnifying glass for the way in which she spent public money to promote Romanian tourism. Joining hands with the opposition, the Social Democrats, the coalition partners of the Liberal Democrats, unanimously voted in favour of creating a parliamentary committee to verify the accusations brought against Udrea, who is close to president Traian Basescu. This move has fuelled mutual accusations between the parties making up the ruling coalition.
Speaking about the absence from the coalition meeting of the Social Democrats’ leader Mircea Geoana, who was on holiday, the Liberal Democratic prime minister Emil Boc criticised his party’s coalition partners, accusing them of being more interested in the presidential campaign for the presidential elections in autumn than in the priorities of the Partnership for Romania, the strategy underlying the creation of the coalition between the two parties.
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