Romania's president faces impeachment
after the governing coalition called for him to be suspended.
Centre-right (wrong - he's a former securitate officer an still active in the that community, therefore he's NOT center-right) President Traian Basescu has been at loggerheads with Prime
Minister Victor Ponta, who heads the opposing Social Liberal Union (USL), which
has a majority in parliament.
If parliament votes for Mr Basecu's suspension, a national poll on his
impeachment can follow. Mr Ponta himself is under pressure to resign over allegations of
plagiarism. The USL party has asked parliament to hold an extraordinary meeting to
suspend Mr Basescu, a party member told a Romanian news agency. Mr Ponta's USL party passed a law to simplify the process of having the
president impeached. That law still needs to be considered by the Constitutional
Court. The Constitutional Court itself has accused Mr Ponta of trying to dismantle
it, and on Tuesday complained to the European Commission that he was threatening
the court's independence. The USL, in power since May, says that the court is heavily influenced by Mr
Basescu, whose popularity has dropped since he imposed austerity measures agreed
with the EU and IMF in 2010. The political conflict between the president and prime minister has stalled
decision-making processes in Romania at a time when it is finalising agreements
on an IMF-backed aid package for its economy. Mr Basescu has accused Mr Ponta of trying to interfere with Romania's legal
and state institutions in order to secure his indictment. On Tuesday the US ambassador to Romania, Mark Gitenstein, expressed deep
concerns about any attempts to affect state institutions.
2 comments:
The entire article is a missreprezentation of what's happening in Romania. The commentator twists the facts and I have no doubt as of who has written the comment/article. Fact: Traian Basescu and his cronies, delapidated the country, run the economy in to the ground and ruled Romania as a Landlord for years. A former Securitate officialdom, Traian Basescu can be very well be compared with Sadam Husein, come to think of it. In recent years he even placed his slightly retarded daughter, in the European Parliament in order to be able to syphon funds through hidden and protected accounts. His disregard for the rule of law goes back to the years before 1989 and shortly after, period totally forgotten by the writer of the article, when Traian Basescu disposed of the Romanian shipping fleet by illegal means, drawing tremendous personal profits. Well, I believe that this article is an intentional misrepresentation of facts and I hope that the owner of this blog will dissociate himself from these kinds of ludicrous lies and fact twisting.
The entire article is a missreprezentation of what's happening in Romania. The commentator twists the facts and I have no doubt as of who has written the comment/article. Fact: Traian Basescu and his cronies, delapidated the country, run the economy in to the ground and ruled Romania as a Landlord for years. A former Securitate officialdom, Traian Basescu can be very well be compared with Sadam Husein, come to think of it. In recent years he even placed his slightly retarded daughter, in the European Parliament in order to be able to syphon funds through hidden and protected accounts. His disregard for the rule of law goes back to the years before 1989 and shortly after, period totally forgotten by the writer of the article, when Traian Basescu disposed of the Romanian shipping fleet by illegal means, drawing tremendous personal profits. Well, I believe that this article is an intentional misrepresentation of facts and I hope that the owner of this blog will dissociate himself from these kinds of ludicrous lies and fact twisting.
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