PSD Leader Readies Party For Early Elections

Mircea Geoana, president of the Social-Democrat Party, or PSD, in opposition, called an urgent meeting of his party’s county leaders to prepare for the early elections.

Geoana said the appointment of Radu Berceanu, of the Democrat Party, as minister of transportation Tuesday was an omen showing the current government would step down soon.

"I see Berceanu’s arrival in the center-right government as the one of the Trojan Horse," explained Geoana.

He likened Berceanu’s nomination to that of Traian Basescu’s - now Romania’s president - as transportation minister, who brought down the center-right government in the 1996 - 2000 legislature, Geoana said.

Geoana also said the wind of change favored his party, as the motions recently filed by the PSD received votes from the benches of the ruling coalition.