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| A New Political Alliance 06/01/2011 |
| (2011-01-06) |
| Last updated: 2011-01-07 15:48 EET |
The Conservative party, at present the smallest and perhaps the most resourceful party in the parliamentary opposition, is willing to seal a new political deal, following its break with the Social Democratic Party.
The new Conservative favourite is now the number two party in the opposition, the National Liberal Party. Liberals and Conservative announced they would forge a so-called Center-Right Alliance.
Daniel Constantin, leader of the Conservative Party, explains what this move entails: “We plan on devising a common programme, we intend to put forward common candidates in the forthcoming parliamentary elections. We hope that at a certain point, we will join with the Social Democratic Party and maybe the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania, so as to strengthen an alternative that might offer Romanians a well-oiled government and a high-quality standard of living.”
The planned political structure is commonsensical, since the two allies are compatible in terms of doctrine. Liberal leader Crin Antonescu argues that a Conservative-Liberal alliance might also be a viable alternative to the Liberal-Democratic ruling coalition. Conversely, the Liberal president expressed his readiness to cast off all speculations according to which an alliance with the Conservative party might seek to undermine the Social-Democratic Party.
Crin Antonescu: “It is an alliance first and foremost based on common points in terms of political ideology and doctrine, which is why the Liberal-Conservative Alliance will be called the Center-Right Alliance. It is a first step towards a wider political alliance, a view that we share with the Conservative Party.”
The Liberals and Conservatives hope the Social-Democrats would join in, so as to consolidate long-term political partnership.
According to Social-Democratic leader Victor Ponta, such an alternative is possible only if his party is to retain its left-wing ideology: “Obviously, the Social-Democratic Party will conserve its identity and ideology as a left-wing party, while the National Liberal Party and the Conservative Party will represent the center-right ideology in the alliance. But that does not prevent us from sharing a political platform and a political agenda.”
Wooed by the opposition parties, the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians decided to remain in the ruling coalition for the time being, and expressed its bewilderment at the Conservatives’ leap from a left-wing alliance to a right-wing one. But this comes as no surprise, given that the Conservative Party stemmed from the former Humanist Party, a party with social-liberal views. At present, the Conservative Party is illustrative of the opportunism characterizing Romanian politics. It managed to enter Parliament twice with the help of the Social-Democratic Party, with which it broke away shortly afterwards.
But the ideological inconsistency or the devious ways of its founding president, Dan Voiculescu, who was discovered to have acted as an informer for the Securitate, the secret police of the communist regime, are of smaller importance. What really matters for the future allies of the Conservatives is the visibility they would enjoy thanks to Voiculescu’s media empire, which is a major asset in any electoral fight.
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