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| MEDIA HEADLINES 07/12/2009 |
| (2009-12-07) |
| Last updated: 2009-12-08 13:46 EET |
“A country with two presidents”, this is how newspapers in Bucharest illustrate the tragic-comic aftermath of the presidential election in Romania.
On Sunday night, after the second presidential ballot, both the incumbent president Traian Basescu, supported by the governing Liberal Democratic Party and the Social Democratic leader Mircea Geoana, who was backed by the whole opposition, claimed the next 5 year term in office. “Who’s the winner?”- asks the daily newspaper ADEVARUL.
“Each candidate claimed his victory” reads the daily EVENIMENTUL ZILEI, which underlines that the real results will be announced by the Central Electoral Bureau. Until we know for sure, we will continue to witness a genuine war of nerves, waged by exit polls, contradicted by the parallel vote count undertaken by the two parties, mutual accusations of fraud and the ecstasy and agony experienced by the two sides. A war that was intensified by an unexpected turnout of almost 60%.
“Very discontent with how the country had been doing, voters rushed to the polls to cast a negative vote” writes the daily COTIDIANUL sharing the analysts’ opinion according to which many votes for Geoana were actually votes against Basescu and vice-versa. The same newspaper writes that never before has “an election campaign been so violent, aggressive and dirty and marred by stolen votes and last minute arrangements. “
Trying to take a distance, the daily GANDUL writes that irrespective of who wins, in 2010, “the year that decides Romania’s medium term economic future, the country’s top priority will be the formation of a new government” to replace the minority Liberal Democratic government, removed in October through a censure motion. According to the same daily “the new cabinet has to resume talks with the IMF and the European Commission for Romania to be able to receive sooner the 2.5 billion Euro instalments that could not be disbursed in December”.
Hoping that the Romanian citizens “had something to learn from these elections” the editorialist of the daily ROMANIA LIBERA says that the lesson should be civic involvement and monitoring of rulers. Because, the daily adds, “neither Basescu nor Geoana or any other person mandated to hold a public office should be allowed to act in the absence of honesty and competence. No matter who the president will be, it’s also our responsibility to make his term in office better than we expected or not as bad as we fear”.
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