POLITICS - In Brief

The Democrat-Liberals are courting the Liberals and the PD-L (Democrat-Liberal Party) leaders are insinuating that they are willing to govern together with the PNL (National Liberal Party). The more relenting attitude at the Liberals is emerging because of the PD-L's poor score in the local elections and also due to the EPP urge that the party should negotiate with everyone in order to get power.

The PD-L vice president Valeriu Stoica said last Sunday that such an alliance would be in keeping with the right ideological profile of the two groups. He commented: I would like such an alliance, I would like the right to return to its matrix by recuperating the Liberals, for the PD-L has got a strong Liberal component, but not all liberalism is in the PD-L."

He said it just a few days after Antonio Lopez Isturiz, a general secretary of the EPP, had advised the PD-L to consider all possible alliances to make sure the party would get to make a stabile government. When asked if he also meant an alliance between the PD-L and the PSD (Social-Democrat Party), the EPP official didn't deny such a possibility.

The Democrat-Liberals' change of attitude is obvious. The PD-L president Emil Boc mentioned yesterday that collaboration with the PNL as impossible as long as Calin Popescu Tariceanu was a president of this party. This is the only name still on the PD-L black list, a list so far including Bogdan Olteanu and Crin Antonescu too. There is also the fact that the ex Liberals now in the PD-L have dropped statements claiming that the PD-L has now got to represent Romanian Liberal values exclusively. (A.I., M.I.)

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