Last week, the Social Liberal Union launched its candidates on the National Arena in Bucharest before 70 thousand people, in what political analysts called a “show of force”. The co-leader of the Social Liberal Union, Prime Minister Victor Ponta, now gives some technical details about their alliance’s candidacies:

Victor Ponta: “By Friday October 26th our alliance will have all candidacies filed in Romania’s 41 counties and the capital Bucharest. If some of those candidacies are contested we’ll then have time to look into the contestations and, if need be, nominate a different candidate.”

In turn, the Rightful Romania Alliance – ARD, made up of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party and two extra-parliamentary parties, the Christian Democratic National Peasant’s Party and the Civic Force are getting ready to finalize their candidates’ list. All the candidates of the Rightful Romania Alliance will have to be confirmed by an ethics committee headed by the former justice minister, Monica Macovei. The president of the Liberal Democratic Party, Vasile Blaga, has more on the situation of their alliance’s candidates’ list:

Vasile Blaga: “We are now receiving the last evaluations of the ethics committee. Contestations have been solved and we are going to finalize the list soon.”

After this summer’s political crisis, which culminated with the failed attempt of the Social Liberal Union to impeach President Traian Basescu, backed by the Liberal Democratic Party, a relative period of calm has now settled on the Romanian political scene. But according to analysts, this is just the period of calm before the storm that is going to start with the onset of the election campaign next month.