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| MEDIA HEADLINES 11/01/2008 |
| (2008-01-11) |
| Last updated: 2008-01-14 17:03 EET |
“Traian Basescu and Calin Popescu Tariceanu have thrown Romania into a new political chaos”, headlines the daily ZIUA, adding that the bone of contention this time is the appointment of Norica Nicolai as Justice Minister. In December, Prime Minister Tariceanu nominated the liberal senator, ex-communist prosecutor and former Christian-Democrat state secretary, for the portfolio of Justice Minister. President Basescu subsequently refused to accept her, and the National Liberals refusal to renounce her triggered the first political scandal of the year, right after the winter holidays.
The GARDIANUL daily explains the reasons behind the presidential hostility, namely: ‘Her attempt to remove legislation facilitating the unveiling of former communist leaders and the files drawn up by the Securitate, the political police of the communist regime in Romania’. Among other presidential arguments against Norica Nicolai is the fact that on one occasion she allowed her niece to actually vote in Parliament, thus infringing Romanian law. Moreover, she’s been monitored by the Romanian Intelligence Service and has alleged connections with a businessman currently under criminal investigation. The press has quoted president Basescu as saying that ‘senator Nicolai does not have an irreproachable professional and moral career’ and she does not seem to be the right person to rehabilitate the image of Romanian justice, either before the Romanians and Brussels, an image severely marred by the inappropriate performance of former liberal minister Tudor Chiuariu.’
However, as the daily ROMANIA LIBERA writes, “Norica is not negotiable”, and proof of that is the Prime Minister’s decision to invoke non-Constitutional reasons to avoid meeting the president and discussing the minister’s nomination. Another daily paper, ‘Evenimentul Zilei’ depicts the entire situation as a deadlock, but the publication is also critical of the journalists who should have vehemently protested against Norica Nicolai’s nomination, due to her past history.
As COTIDIANUL puts it bluntly ‘the President doesn’t want her, the Prime Minister is unable to come up with a better replacement, while the candidate, who is only a good example of the absence of qualified personnel confronting the Liberal Party at present, has nothing to do but put a brave face on things.’ Amusingly, the same paper even comes to the rescue of the Prime Minister suggesting that he might as well propose the alternative nomination of Norica Nicolai’s niece, a youth ‘already boasting a little experience in Parliament’.
Evoking previous episodes from what the press loved to call ‘the War between the two palaces”, the editorial carried by CURENTUL, voices hopes that both Basescu and Tariceanu might offer themselves a moment of reflection and admit they wasted a month of their lives for a woman who isn’t even their type.
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