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| NEW ARRANGEMENTS ON THE ROMANIAN POLITICAL SCENE 01/03/2010 |
| (2010-03-01) |
| Last updated: 2010-03-02 17:14 EET |
 At the congress when Constantin elected, the Conservative Party also tried to redefine its alliance strategy. Always under the required 5% threshold needed to enter parliament in opinion polls, the party has so far made it to parliament on the Social Democratic Party lists. With the exception of the Conservatives alone, everybody agrees that they owe their parliamentary seats to the strongly pro-Social Democratic editorial policy of the media trust belonging to Dan Voiculescu, the founder of the Conservative Party.
After promising, for the first time in the Conservatives' history, that the party will go its own way, Daniel Constantin immediately softened his tone and added that the party will be open to collaborate with the rest of the opposition, that is the Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Party, which, commentators say, the Conservatives will continue to leech on to. These two parties have to solve their own internal problems, however. As far as the Liberal Party is concerned, the once inseparable party leader Crin Antonescu and the first vice-president Ludovic Orban don't seem to like each other any more. The Liberals' congress next week-end is expected to bring about a clear choice between the two and their respective party strategies.
Antonescu, who is a favourite to win the party leadership, is the supporter of the winner takes it all scenario and wants to choose his collaborators himself if elected. Orban invokes the basic principles of the Liberal doctrine and wants each member of the leadership structure to be elected individually. In the Social Democrats' camp, members continue to defect the party.
Following an extraordinary congress when Mircea Geoana was replaced by Victor Ponta as party president, the former justice minister Cristian Diaconescu and the former labour minister Marian Sarbu both said they would leave the party and join the independents' parliamentary group made up of Social Democratic and Liberal defectors who support the government formed by the Social Democrats and the Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania. Despite people like Diaconescu and Sarbu, who have a good public image, the independents' group is seen by the media as full of people who represent the worst things in Romanian politics, namely immorality and corruption.
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