The CSAT (Supreme Council for National Defense) sent the national security law projects back to the government without consenting to them. Radu Stroe, a general secretary of the government, announced it yesterday.
Given this, the Liberal minister claimed, it was most likely that the projects should be sent to the Parliament. Liberal Bogdan Olteanu, president of the Chamber of Deputies, said they were welcome. He promised that in the first meeting of the Liberals he would demand Liberal MPs to take the government's projects as their own initiative and make them undergo parliamentary debate soon. (...) (O.B.)
PSD can smell the conflict
The return of these law projects to the government without consent from the CSAT is a pretext used to continue the useless and harmful fight between the President of Romania and the PM, claimed the PSD (Social-Democrat Party) president Mircea Geoana yesterday. He commented: "The issue is taken like a ping pong ball between the PM and the President. The return of the laws with no CSAT consent is one more proof that Traian Basescu is carrying on his fight against PM Tariceanu."
Geoana also mentioned the PSD demanded the laws should urgently reach the Parliament. He announced that the PSD Permanent Committee agreed that the Social-Democrats would complete a set of laws of their own by next week so that the issue would be settled. (R.A.)