Better a beer than chearing…


President Traian Basescu told on Sunday, at the commemorative events from Tebea dedicated to Avram Iancu, to a participant who cheered him saying “Basescu, president” to stop shouting, and “better” go to a beer together. After he laid the wreath of flowers at the cemetery, at the tomb of Avram Iancu, Traian Basescu and his wife went to the cultural center from Tebea, where they changed their official gear for casual clothes. Then, President Traian Basescu and his wife Maria strolled through the crowd gathered on the plateau from Tebea, taking photos and changing opinions with the locals about Avram Iancu. One of the participants to the event was shouting “Basescu president,” and the Head of State asked him to stop, because the subject at Tebea is Avram Iancu. “Please stop shouting, let’s better go and have a beer,” Basescu told the man.


PNL charges PDL with blackmail


PNL vice president Relu Fenechiu said on Monday that he will file a criminal complaint against the Democrat-Liberal Dan Carlan, state secretary in the Environment Ministry, accusing him of having asked some Liberal mayors from Iasi county to support Traian Basescu, paying in exchange for some environment and infrastructure projects. Fenechiu stressed that he would file a criminal complaint this week. “We are watching a typical blackmail, actually conditioning the payment for some infrastructure and environment projects on signatures in favour of Traian Basescu. I understand that Mr. Basescu is desperate because of his situation, that he does not even know if he enters the second round, but what is happening now has never happened in the past few years,” Fenechiu said. He warned that using a public dignity office for political purpose is equivalent to a deed assimilated to the corruption deeds and is punished with prison for up to five years.


Sandru accuses Realitatea TV of censorship


Lavinia Sandru, the leader of National Initiative Party PIN), forwarded a complaint to CNA as a result of the “obvious censorship set by Realitatea TV management, since the return of project manager Sergiu Toader.” She said that she was invited several times to the TV channel, invitations which were subsequently cancelled, further to Toader’s decision. In a press release, Sandru says that she has forwarded a complaint to the National Council of the Audiovisual “based on the right to free expression guaranteed by the Constitution of Romania, and as a result of the obligation of this state institution to assure, on behalf of public interest, the respect of the pluralist expression of ideas and opinions.” An information circulated on Friday on the blogs regarding an internal document of Realitatea TV, through which Sergiu Toader prohibited the appearance on the screen of certain political men such as Gigi Becali, C.V. Tudor, Aurelian Pavelescu, Marius Marinescu and Lavinia Sandru. Likewise, on a white list of the persons who deserve being present on Realitatea TV stage there are, among others, Dan Puric, Mircea Diaconu, professors of politology and sociology, the film directors Corneliu Porumboiu, Cristian Mungiu, the academician Solomon Marcus and “young intellectuals.”