Conservative Party Decides Sunday If It Stays In Government

The Conservative Party, or PC, junior member in the center-right ruling coalition, was caught in a whirlwind of meetings since Friday in the wake of its top-leadership meeting Sunday, expected to rule on whether the party should leave the four-party coalition or not.

PC President Dan Voiculescu meets with his party’s local leaders, parliamentarians and ministers for a large consultation on their opinion to opt out of government.

On their more detailed agendas is assessing the way PC cooperates locally with its coalition partners or how many of its draft laws were supported by the other parties in the ruling alliance. "We addressed if the coalition was working locally, and assessed there were local subsidiaries where it was not. We also addressed the political situation we are placed in, which I would call as very difficult and confusing," said Voiculescu.

PC spokesperson Bogdan Ciuca said no decision was struck yet on whether or not the party would leave government. Ciuca said both supporters and dissenters to the idea felt very strongly about it.

Ciuca said the issue of Voiculescu’s alleged collaboration with the Securitate, the Romania’s communist times intelligence services, was out of the table and would not influence the party’s decision Sunday on whether it stayed in government or not.

Translated by Anca Paduraru