POLITICS

This is the week of political passion. The main players on the public stage are getting ready for decisive events that will be highly important to Romanian politics.

The Romanian PM is to come up with a new government structure in order to meet the claim of the PSD (Social-Democrat Party). And such a decision is not at all easy: a government with no PD (Democrat Party) representatives could cost him his PM seat, since the PSD may go for the making of a national government union. And both the Liberals and the Democrats are having talks with the PSD: some are for and the others are against a minority government. But none of the two parties has reached clear agreement with the PSD.

On the other hand, if unless the Parliament fives the Liberals the votes needed to support a restructured Cabinet, they will ask PM Tariceanu to quit. Therefore the latter is walking on thin ice.

The consultations due in Cotroceni Palace seem to be one more episode for the PSD to decide which train to take. The President of Romania Traian Basescu will be making use of all the arguments he needs to get the benevolence of the PSD.

The Constitutional Court too is giving a hard time to Cotroceni lodger, as judges are to decide if the parliamentary committee assigned to analyze the initiative to suspend the President of Romania is in keeping with the Constitution. A positive decision verdict would mean one more defeat of President Basescu in his war against the Parliament. Mihai TOADER

PM's future is up to the Parliament

The Liberals are asking the PM to seek support in the Parliament or quit. Liberal Bogdan Olteanu, a president of the Chamber of Deputies, comments: "Things have to be settled publicly. Right now Tariceanu's Cabinet lacks 235 votes in the Parliament. This can't last long. A solution is needed: either the present government gets parliamentary political support, which doesn't mean that other forces are to reach the government, or a new government solution is shaped. The prime minister's role is essential at this point. He is to conclude whether he is enjoying parliamentary support or not. If he isn't, I am convinced he will know how to step aside and ask the President for a political solution."

Teodor Atanasiu, a vice president of the National Liberal Party, mentioned last Saturday the idea that the PM should quit in case of no support from the Parliament. He argued that the Liberals wanted the PM to seek parliamentary support or quit. Atanasiu explained: "Normality means parliamentary political life. The government will have to get support and majority from the Parliament. If he fails, he will have to leave. The government can't continue in case of enjoying no parliamentary majority."

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