PNL (the National Liberal Party) leader Calin Popescu Tariceanu asked the Democrats, his colleagues in the Alliance, to have fusion with the Liberals. He did it for the last time. He made this offer in Saturday's National Convention of PD (the Democrat Party). It was no longer an allusive proposal, but a straight one, sounding like ultimatum. Tariceanu said in the PD reunion: " PNL is still willing to consider a solution that would allow not only collaboration in the Alliance, but also eventual fusion. This is if you want it too." Sorin Funzaverde was the only Democrat member to turn down the offer for fusion. Emil Boc avoided straight answer. He only said that Executive activities were priority, "above other issues related to the political project" of the Alliance. One day later, while in Alba Iulia, Tariceanu said it was the last time he was asking the Democrats for party fusion: "Yesterday I said it for the third time that we want to analyze the idea of fusion. This time I said it clearly. Now our partners have the ball." One day after Tariceanu's allusive ultimatum to Boc, asking for fusion with the Liberals, PNL leader in Bucharest Ludovic Orban criticized the Democrats, saying they wouldn't take responsibility for government failures. He also criticized the Democrats, claiming all they wanted was to take advantage of the image capital President Traian Basescu enjoyed. All this time, Orban claimed that the head of state would have never reached such top position, had there not been support from the Liberals. In front of delegates attending the PNL Conference in Alba and applauding him in frenzy, as well as in front of Tariceanu that gave support to his statements, Orban also said that PD made its own political agenda that included no PNL. Moreover, Orban, known as the convinced enemy of any relations with the Democrats, claimed that fusion was unachievable because the two parties had absolutely nothing in common. On the other hand, Tariceanu's allusive ultimatums to the Democrats and Oraban's straight attacks against them prove that PNL and PD are about to split. What Tariceanu metaphorically called the PNL-PD marriage might end in bad divorce. Sorin Frunzaverde was the only Democrat to react to the Liberal leader's offer. He was against fusion with PNL. Frunzaverde explained: "Personally, I think we must have no fusion with the Liberals. Today we have a functional alliance with the Liberals, an alliance that would become natural if we turn into a Popular party somewhere in between a center-Popular party and a right-oriented, national Liberal one. We are going to represent Romania in the European People's Party, they have the same representation in European Liberal groups. From now on this is normal collaboration." Frunzaverde opined that the electorate would support such alliance much more than it would support a single group reached by means of fusion.

Anca Hriban