Parliament - Tariceanu Casts Hazy Reflections on Basescu

Yesterday, at the Parliament, where he went for the general assembly regarding the censorship motion "The Tariceanu Government - Deeds and Lies", which SDP had initiated, Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu (photo) explained his absence from last week’s speech of President Traian Basescu. "Today I came because I had to, even though it was not necessary, but I don’t think I should have attended the speech since it wasn’t been compulsory nor necessary. There are also other ways for me to get informed", Tariceanu said. He added that after analyzing the President’s speech and comparing it to the conclusions of the European Commission, "which are seen as objective and extremely professional", one can notice an "enormous discrepancy, which causes a problem". "I don’t think the problem belongs to the Government, nor to the European Commission. If the Commission sees the Government’s actions as extremely positive it means that the problem is somewhere else", the PM said. In the same time, he said that "at this moment, there is no need for support or for a minority Government". As for the SDP (the Social Democratic Party) motion, which he qualified as "demagogic and populist", Tariceanu stated that it "cannot pass" and seemed convinced that all the parties in the Coalition would vote against it.

BOREDOM

The text of the motion, 28 pages long, which the SDP Deputy Mihai Tansescu presented for approximately one hour, has been a tax on the nerves of the 120 Parliament members in the room. In order to fight the boredom, the politicians started conversations, read papers or talked on the phone. The SDP leaders weren’t all present either. They were only 50. Only 85 politicians remained in the room until the end. (Lavinia Dimancea, Carmen Vintila)

Translated by Sorin Balan