Grant of RON 100 M for
R. of Moldova


The Government will request Parliament to approve, urgently, the granting of a non-reimbursable financial aid of RON 100 M to the Republic of Moldova, and a set of 400,000 doses of vaccine against the pandemic flu, the spokeswoman of the Executive, Ioana Muntean, announced. According to Mediafax, the aid for the neighbouring state will be promoted in Parliament as a legislative initiative.


After the visit paid to Bucharest two weeks ago, the Moldovan Premier Vlad Filat declared that 400,000 doses of vaccine against AH1N1 virus will be donated by Romania to the Republic of Moldova. Locally made A/H1N1 vaccine shipped to outbreak areas


Presidential result leads
to sanctions


The score that Traian Basescu obtained in the first round of elections on Sunday, a score that is very low compared to the Democrat-Liberals’ expectations and with the estimates of opinion polls conducted by the party, has caused a significant row within PD-L, with the party wing headed by Blaga not wasting the opportunity to tax the Stolojan team whose representatives registered poor results in the Counties in which they headed the party’s campaign. Thus, according to ‘Jurnalul National’ daily, Monica Iacob Ridzi and her husband have already lost the right to lead the party’s run-off campaign in Hunedoara County, being replaced by Finance Minister Gheorghe Pogea. At the same time Vasile Blaga has retaliated against Catalin Flutur, Gheorghe Flutur’s cousin and the president of PD-L’s Botosani County branch, after the latter registered a crushing defeat at the hands of PSD. PSD’s result in Botosani was higher than PD-L’s by 20 per cent.


Boureanu: Dinescu was offered EUR 2,000 to support Basescu


Cristian Boureanu (PDL) and Mircea Dinescu had a live conflict full of invectives and allegations, ‘Gandul’ daily informed yesterday. The cascade of invectives culminated with a serious accusation Boureanu made to Dinescu: ‘Hey you! Dinescu, I’m looking at you and I’m going to let it out although I didn’t mean to! What about when the Mayor of Craiova was giving you EUR 2,000 on every occasion, money you have never declared, what about when you went to Basescu to negotiate your pay for campaigning for the D.A. Alliance, at the Sucevita monastery?’ ‘What a prat!…’ Dinescu replied. He went on: ‘I am prepared to swear on the Bible that I have never taken a penny’. ‘Go ahead! Sue me!’ Boureanu howled a few times.


Basescu possibly reporting
to DNA on December 8


In its yesterday’s edition, ‘Cotidianul’ daily answered the following question: ‘Why does Traian Basescu want a second term in office?’ According to the named source, Basescu is desperate for a new term because there is not yet a statute of limitations on his ‘Fleet’ judicial case. If Basescu loses election, the part of the case the High Court had returned to the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) will be re-opened, the investigation will have to be redone and one of the two decisions will have to be made: Basescu will either be cleared of all charges or he will be referred to court. The president benefits from absolute immunity from prosecution up to December 6 but, should he lose, the ‘Fleet’ case will be brought up again after five years when the inquiry has been kept in suspension.