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| THE ROMANIAN POLITICAL SCENE BEFORE THE EUROPEAN ELECTION (22.10.2007) |
| (2007-10-22) |
| Last updated: 2007-10-23 16:23 EET |
President Traian Basescu and the Democratic Party, which he had led until he became head of the state, continue to be in the lead of the Romanian electorate's preferences. At least so comes out from the opinion polls conducted by the Institute for Opinion Studies and Marketing, in brief INSOMAR, and the Association for Transparency and Freedom of Expression, for short ALTE. However, the results of the two polls differ quite widely, calling again into question the credibility of opinion polls. Actually, not just few consider that such polls cast a favourable light on the one who commissions them. INSOMAR ranks President Traian Basescu first in terms of electoral credibility, with 52-53%.
The same leading position is held by the head of the state also in the ALTE poll, which however credits him with 10% less. The President is followed by the Liberal Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu, the Social Democratic leader Mircea Geoana and by the relatively new comer on the political scene, multi-millionaire George Becali, the head of the New Generation Party (not represented in Parliament). In the INSOMAR poll, George Becali lost seven points after removing famous football glory Gica Hagi from the helm of the Steaua football team.
As regards the voting intentions in a parliamentary election, the Democratic Party would be voted by 42% in the INSOMAR poll and by 34% in the ALTE poll. In both polls, but with a wide difference between their respective results, also appear the Social Democratic Party and the National Liberal Party. Other three parties are credited with around 5%, which is the electoral threshold, while the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democratic Party, now in Parliament, are at risk to be left out after the forthcoming election. The INSOMAR poll reveals a shocking reality: 86% of the Romanians do not know that the election for the European Parliament is scheduled for November the 25th.
A group of NGOs, called the Coalition for a Clean Parliament, says that 11 candidates for this election would be morally incompatible and recommends that they be dropped from the race. The candidates were monitored on the basis of several criteria, such as the profit obtained following a conflict of interests, if investigated for corruption, migration from one political party to another or collaboration as agent or informer with the former communist political police, the Securitate. But here is political analyst Cristian Parvulescu, with details about the aim of this initiative:
“We think that the electorate have a right to know that there are some suspicions which the media spoke about and that they must cast their vote fully aware of these situations.”
But if the large majority of Romanians do not know when the election for the European Parliament is to be held, perhaps even more will have no idea about the initiative of the Coalition for a Clean Parliament, which is, of course, contested by those targeted by it and which can be found in almost all political parties.
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