POLITICS

Those MPs who joined the Stolojan-Stoica group resigned from the PNL (National Liberal Party) yesterday. After the Parliament voting on the state budget for 2007 the 24 senators and deputies supporting the Liberal Platform announced their resignations, also pointing to the "failure " of the PNL leaders. Here are the 8 senators who quitted the party yesterday: Viorel Arion, Mihai Cinteza, Gheorghe Flutur, Nicolae Vlad Popa, Ionut Popescu, Ovidiu Radoi, Mihai Tabuleac, Dan Sabau. 16 deputies are in the same boat: Romica Andreica, Horatiu Buzatu, Marian Hoinaru, Mircea Iustian, Corneliu Momanu, Viorel Oancea, Dumitru Pardau, Sorin Paveliu, Florin Popescu, Vasile Pruteanu, Gabriel Sandu, Cornel Stirbet, Dragos Ujeniuc, Petre Ungureanu, Dorinel Ursarescu and Claudiu Zaharia.

The ex agriculture minister Gheorghe Flutur reproached the present PNL officials for failing to reach "the right, coherent way for Romanian liberalism", claiming they had ceased to represent Liberal values, principles and practices. He also emphasized that the initiative of the Stolojan-Stoica group, that is the PLD (Liberal Democrat Party), could save liberalism and restore order on the stage of Romanian politics.

The group expressed confidence that the PLD would be successful and it would soon become a credible alternative for the Liberal electorate. Flutur claimed the group would stay "loyal" to the electorate that had sent them to the Parliament. He didn't forget to mention that the group would have consulting with the PD (Democrat Party), as they thought themselves to be the legitimate component of the Alliance in power.

The Liberals who resigned yesterday expressed their wish to make up a separate parliamentary group in both the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. (...)

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