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| MEDIA HEADLINES (23.10.2007) |
| (2007-10-23) |
| Last updated: 2007-10-24 15:58 EET |
Using as a justification the fact that political parties are stalling the introduction of the uninominal voting system, President Traian Basescu said he would call a referendum on the issue. “Nobody can fool me or the Romanian public. I don’t see why Romanians can’t have a referendum on the uninominal voting system at the same time with the Euro-parliamentary elections of November the 25th”, said the President on Monday, on the last day of an ultimatum he had given to political parties to pass the new election law. Only a few hours before his announcement, the National Liberal Party, the senior partner in the coalition government which also includes the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania, had decided to assume responsibility for this law before Parliament. Desired by most Romanians but for a long time rejected by the parties, the uninominal voting system only recently became a valid option. The daily Gandul believes the reason why politicians are so keen on the uninominal voting system is the subject’s popularity with the public. In ten years of heated debates on the issue, uninominal voting has become somewhat of a legend, and is believed by people to be able to work wonders.
An article headlined “The uninominal as a prey” writes that the new voting system is for Traian Basescu more of a means of revenging on a political class that is mediocre, aggressive and unreceptive to his ideas, and a way of gathering votes for the Democratic Party, his former party. In fact, the daily Gandul also writes, parliamentarians hate the uninominal voting system because they know that once it is in place, many of them will lose their cozy seats in Parliament. The daily Evenimentul Zilei explains for its readers the two types of uninominal voting systems proposed so far: “President Traian Basescu wants a law more similar to that in the United States, which says that only the candidates who win in their electoral districts can enter Parliament. There’s also another system, more common in Europe and backed by the Tariceanu Government, which says that half of the seats in Parliament will be occupied by the winners of these electoral districts, while half will be distributed depending on the results scored by each party at national level.” The dailies Romania Libera, Cotidianul and Ziua see the uninominal voting system as a new reason for conflict between the President and the Prime Minister, former partners and winners of the elections held three years ago. The headlines require no further comments: “Basescu and Tariceanu dig out the hatchet of the uninominal”, “The uninominal system has two fathers”, “A new game – President Basescu and the Tariceanu cabinet also fight over uninominal voting.”
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