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| MEDIA HEADLINES (27.11.2007) |
| (2007-11-27) |
| Last updated: 2007-11-29 15:38 EET |
“The quarrels have started!” – the daily ROMANIA LIBERA shouts out, noting that “the outcome of Sunday’s Euro-parliamentarian elections has triggered internal fights within most parties.”
The daily newspaper GANDUL also writes about the effects of the first Euro-elections in the history of Romania: “less than 24 hours from the closing of the polls, parties are rocked or ruined by the results of the vote.” The paper gives the details, writing that the Greater Romania Party, a populist party in opposition, which fell under the 5% threshold, is close to scission.” The leadership of the Social Democratic Party, in opposition, winner of 23% of the votes, is threatened by an extraordinary Congress. The leaders of the National Liberal Party, the governing party which won 13% of the votes, are called upon to reshuffle the Government and change the foreign, justice and education ministers, whose amateurism is affecting the party image.
Not even the pro-presidential Democratic Party, winner of the Euro-elections with 28%, “is feeling at ease.” Noting that “the Democratic and Social Democratic Parties are separated by only 5%”, the daily newspaper EVENIMENTUL ZILEI explains the frustrations accumulated by each of the two parties. “The percentage won by the democrats is much lower than that estimated by opinion polls”, which was around 40%. Thus, “by order of President Basescu”, first to be sacrificed were the leaders of the county branches which scored much bellow the national average. The Social Democratic Party, often named by the media as a “party-state”, had the lowest percentage ever registered after the 1989 Revolution by the former-communist left, led by former Romanian President Ion Iliescu, today honorary president of the social-democrats. In the event of a congress, people close to Iliescu plan to hold the current party leader Mircea Geoana responsible. The daily EVENIMENTUL ZILEI also writes that “the former president was ridiculed by his party colleagues for his wish to change the leadership of the social-democrats”, while “Geoana promised him a congress in 2010.”
The daily newspaper COTIDIANUL is the only one interested in the fact that, after his party received only one or two percents of the votes, Cozmin Gusa, leader of the extra-parliamentarian New Generation Party, has resigned.
By far the most affected party is the Greater Romania Party which, as the daily ZIUA joylessly writes, “is coming to pieces”. In the 2000 elections, this xenophobe party, manifesting communist nostalgias and filled with retired member of the former communist political police, won 28% of Parliament mandates, while the party leader, Corneliu Vadim Tudor, went into the second round of the presidential elections. Today, the Greater Romania Party hardly totals 4%, while senators and deputies openly oppose the leader’s order to resign on mass from Parliament. Being for a long time a significant figure in the Greater Romania Party and one of the loudest fans of Vadim Tudor, even MP Daniela Buruiana said, before being excluded from the party, that the party leadership had grown stiff and was formed of old men, one of whom she described as being “an old dotard who came out twice from rehab.”
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