Loading ...The political crisis takes a new turn in Romania, after the Social Democrat leaders shunned a meeting with their ruling Democratic Liberal (PD-L) partners on Wednesday and after Social Democratic Interior Minister Dan Nica had asked President Traian Basescu to refuse signing the decision on sacking him from the post, the Jurnalul National reports.
Basescu, after having put forward an almost unacceptable solution to the PSD on Tuesday, kept silent when it came to signing the decision on removing the interior minister that the prime minister sent to the presidential Cotroceni Palace. The Social Democrats believe the Romanian leader is taking his time until Friday, when PSD leader Mircea Geoana will launch his candidacy to Romania’s president in this November election, the Ziua writes.
The Emil Boc cabinet ministers gathered at their weekly meeting on Wednesday. At a corner of the table, still not sacked vice-Premier and Interior Minister Nica seated himself more than one meter away from Boc, grinning ironically. Nica, who had always sat on the premier’s right, on Wednesday took his chair and sat near another Democratic Liberal, however lower in rank – Transport Minister Radu Berceanu, the Gandul reports.
PSD honorary president Ion Iliescu said President Basescu’s proposition to mediate between the PSD and PD-L over the interior portfolio is ‘offensive’ and stressed that if the president wants the two-party ruling coalition to go on, he has no other alternative than reject Dan Nica’s sacking, the Jurnalul National reports.
Mircea Geoana hopes to wage a successful election campaign by playing victim after pulling out of government. The Social Democratic ministers could delay tendering their resignations till Friday so that their sacrifice be devoted to Geoana’s candidacy. This is merely an idea by which the PSD strategists try hard to save the launch of Geoana’s candidacy that has been buried by the ruling coalition bickering revealed in the news media. ‘Geoana is resuscitated by the PSD ministers’ tears’, headlines the Evenimentul zilei.
While the Social Democrats waver to make the final move of tendering their ministers’ resignations and leave government, the Democratic Liberals are in talks with the opposition Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR) over forming a new two-party government that should also include several technocrats close to President Basescu, the Evenimentul zilei says.
According to the alternate formula discussed ‘in principle’ as early as on Tuesday by Prime Minister Emil Boc with UDMR leader Marko Bela, the ethnic Hungarians’ grouping would get ‘two, maybe three ministries’, several state secretaries and most of the directors of the decentralised bodies in the central counties of Mures, Harghita and Covasna, sources in the PD-L leadership told the Evenimentul zilei yesterday.
The two integrated companies that are to be set up by the government in an attempt to breathe new life into the local power sector will be called Electra and Energetica respectively, according to a draft urgent act obtained by the Evenimentul zilei.
Electra will be set up by the merger of the power plants at Turceni, Rovinari and Craiova, Oltenia National Coal Company, nuclear power grid Nuclearelectrica, the Ramnicu Valcea, Sibiu and Slatina branches of hydro-electric company Hidroelectrica and by Hidroserv based in Ramnicu Valcea, the Evenimentul zilei and Ziua report.
The public sector workers plan major protests in October. The personnel in education, health care, police and the civil servants, having been disregarded when the unified public wage law was debated, have set up the Public Workers’ Alliance and announced they will bring Romania to a standstill by staging a nationwide all-out strike on Oct. 5.
The Alliance seeks to re-negotiate the wage law, which they say ‘places the above-mentioned workers’ brackets at the lower part of the wage scale’, it also wants to stop the public sector staff layoffs and to not accept forced unpaid leaves, the Ziua reports.
More than 800,000 unionists threaten to stage street protests on Oct. 5 and to go on an indefinite all-out strike on Nov. 16, Thursday’s papers report.
The second bridge over the River Danube linking Romania and Bulgaria will be completed in mid-2011, Ivailo Moskovski, Bulgarian deputy Minister of Transport, Information Technologies and Communications told. Moskovski met Romanian State Secretary at the Transport and Infrastructure Ministry Eusebiu Pistru in Sofia on Wednesday.
The two officials said they were very satisfied with the talks they had and announced they had managed to resolve several technical problems that would allow the works to continue.
Chinese company Hoyo Agricultural Machinery Equipment opened on Wednesday the tractor factory at Rasnov-Brasov (central Romania), to produce 20,000 tractors a year by 2012. The investment is put at 50 million dollars, the Cotidianul announces.
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