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| WHO WILL REPRESENT ROMANIA IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT? (27.11.2007) |
| (2007-11-27) |
| Last updated: 2007-11-29 15:38 EET |
Following Sunday’s elections, Romania now has representatives in the European Parliament, though the turnout was less than 30%. The age average of the 35 Romanian Euro-parliamentarians is approximately 42. Most of them are men and come from a variety of professional backgrounds. They are engineers, economists and legal advisors, doctors, mathematicians, psychologists and even two reformed priests.
As for Brussels, the outcome of the elections in Romania is favouring the European People’s Party, who will thus consolidate its majority in the European Parliament following the victory of the Democratic Party and of the votes won by the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania.
The first of Romania’s 14 democratic Euro-parliamentarians is one of the Democratic Party’s vice-presidents, Sorin Frunzaverde. He stood out as an important figure of the party during negotiations to join the European People’s Party, after the democrats had been a part of the Socialist International for 10 years. Several years ago, Frunzaverde was minister of Tourism and the Environment and Defence minister until April this year.
The social-democrats played the card of experience and placed Titus Corlatean, general secretary of the party, on top of their list. Although he represents the young generation, Corlatean has seven years of experience in diplomacy and two years as a member of the European Parliament.
One of the important figures of the Social Democratic Party who won a mandate is Adrian Severin, former foreign minister, considered one of the most active Romanian Euro-parliamentarians. This year he’s been nominated for the European Parliamentarian of the Year Award, granted by the “European Voice” Magazine. The list of social-democratic MPs who will join the European socialists includes other seven names, this being the only party whose number of women Euro-parliamentarians, five, is bigger than that of male Euro-parliamentarians, four.
Following the Romanian elections, Premier Calin Popescu Tariceanu’s party, the National Liberal Party, has increased its number of Euro-parliamentarians by seven. First on their list are Renate Weber, legal advisor, and Daniel Daianu, economist, who both joined the party two months before the election.
The newly former Liberal Democratic Party, a splinter of the National Liberal Party, will be represented in Brussels by its president Theodor Stolojan, together with Dumitru Oprea, rector of the “Al. I. Cuza” University in Iasi, northern Romania.
The Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania also won two mandates, which can be explained by the low number of people who came to the polls and the better mobilisation of Hungarian electors. The only independent candidate was also one of the winners, another Hungarian ethnic, reformed bishop Laszlo Tokes. His name is strongly connected with the December 1989 anti-communist revolution which led to the fall of the communist regime in Romania. Laszlo Tokes is currently at odds with the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania and refused to be included in their list of European MPs nominees.
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