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| MEDIA HEADLINES 26/05/2010 |
| (2010-05-26) |
| Last updated: 2010-05-27 13:38 EET |
The economic and social crisis in Bucharest is turning into political uncertainty. Deeply unpopular after the decision to slash all state salaries by 25% and pensions by 15%, the current political leaders are fearing for their careers, with a general strike announced by the unions and a motion of censure prepared by the Opposition. ‘’President Traian Basescu targeted the entire government’’, daily Evenimentul Zilei headlines, after the president spent all Tuesday rallying political support from coalition parties, the Democratic Liberal Party, the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania, the National Union for the Progress of Romania and the national minorities group.
The newspaper adds that the president has called on MPs to show discipline regarding the vote. His criticism of ministers has been repeatedly carried by the press: lack of transparency, allotting contracts to party clients using public funds, as well as the huge number of ‘’state secretaries with huge incomes from 2 or 3 management boards’’ of state capital companies. Evenimentul Zilei also takes note of ‘’tensions in the coalition’’, where ‘’the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians and the National Union for the Progress of Romania also laid down conditions’’.
Given that there are also ethnic Hungarian pensioners, the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania, which is a governing partner of the National Liberal Party, calls for ‘’solutions whereby low pensions will not be reduced’’. In turn, the National Union for the Progress of Romania, dominated by politicians who have left the Social Democratic Party who want to compete against the former party for the political Left, ‘’threatens to vote for the motion of censure if the government lays a finger on minimum pensions’’. The Daily Adevarul writes of ‘’breaches in the Basescu coalition’’ and quotes EuroMP Monica Macovei, former independent Minister of Justice.
Macovei, who joined the Democratic Liberal Party in the name of ‘’the moral reform of the political class’’ is now outraged as she claims ‘’everybody robs. I think what is going on within the Democratic Liberal Party is very serious. I have come to realise they do just what all the others do’’, unquote. The Daily Romania Libera wonders, on an ironic note: ‘’What do you do if you are not a relative of the party?’’ As it points a finger at the nepotism of the administration, and adds: ‘’They’re all suddenly worried about public money, as they’ve realised that the Romanian state is too poor to pay the salaries of more than a million employees. Fair enough. But was the Romanian state richer when it hired the wives, children and other relatives in public institutions?’’
The satirical weekly Academia Catavencu claims that Basescu has allegedly already picked the antidote for ‘’a country torn by strikes and devastated by incompetence. This will be the layoff of the Prime Minster, the replacement of a few Hungarian ministers, and several Democrat Liberals switching places.”
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