Romania vazuta de Dinulescu Alexandru

Hello and welcome to another “state-of-the-union” type post, this time about the current events that happen in Romania’s Government, since a lot of speculation is done, and the news station here arent really neutral if you get my meaning.

The current political parties in Romania that are represented in the Parliament, which is formed from Senate and The Commons (Deputy room) and their percentage are as follows, based on the last parliamentary elections in Autumn 2008,

• PSD: The Social Democrats allied with the Conservator Party got 36.0% in the Commons and 35.7% in the Senate
• PDL: The Democrat-Liberals got 30.8% in the Commons and 31.7% in the Senate
• PNL: The National-Liberals got 20,4% in the Commons and 19.8% in the Senate
• PRM: The Nationalist Party (highly unpopular due to party leaders) got 3.1% in the Commons and 3.4% in the Senate
• UDMR : The Hungarian-Minority party (represented mostly in 2-3 cities in Transilvania region) got 6.7% in the Commons and 6.7% In the Senate
• PNG : The Rightwing-religious party lead by a multimillionaire in $ got 2.1% in the Commons and 2.1% in the Senate (because of this they didnt get any seats in both chambers, too low %)

First off, let’s start with the time-line

• In 2008 on 30th of November the exit polls show the above results and the competition is finally over
• In 2008 on 21th of December the partnership between Social Democrats and Democrat Liberals, pass the government lead by Emil Boc, with the highest majority recorded after the revolution in 1989, about 70%ish percent
• In 2009, Late September -> Start of October, the Social Democrats left the Government after their Intern Minister gets ousted due to poor performance, so the Social Democrats end up in the opposition, along with the National Liberals and the Hungarians (so a opposition that has over 65% of the parliament, yep), the seats that the Social Democrats left empty, got allocated to the remaining Democrat Liberals, so each minister has it’s own seat plus helds the internship for another ministry left empty
• In 2009, 13th of October, the alliance formed by the everyone except the Democrat-Liberals oust the entire government from power in a vote of no-confidence in the senate
• In 2009, 15th of October, the president, Traian Basescu, against the majority’s opinion names the next candidate for Prime-Minister in the person of Lucian Croitoru, heck he even misspelled his name while he made the announcement, he called him Lucian Cojocaru (yes that was on national television in the inaugural speeches)
• 2009, 4th of November, the parliament rejects Lucian Croiturul as prime-minister and everyone gets back to the negotiation table
• 2009, 6th of November, again the president rejects the majorities opinion and names Liviu Negoita as prime minster, and again he does a big blunder, he says he’s the mayor of the sector 4 in bucharest while he is actually the mayor of sector 3.

So there you have it, the timeline, where does this leave us, well, first off, due to the financial crysis, the government borrowed itself from the IMF, and they said that they will send the money when we actually have a working government, so we have to borrow from the local banks and a much higher interest-rate

During this period we had a shitload of strikes, Public Service workers were on the streets, then Justice had a huge strike for over 1month, then the farmers blocked Bucharest, almost every week there was a demonstration planned

And now against all odds, the president instead of naming a candidate that is supported by the new majority names who he wants, and the best part is that nothing, and i mean nothing can be done about it, the Constitution says that in the last 6 months of a presidential mandate he cannot dismiss the parliament and make another parliamentary election, so no matter how many governments fail now, it doesnt matter, and the best part is that the current party which forms the government even if it has limited power is formed by his own party members, the democrat liberals from which he is a member of. and the even nicer part is that no matter who comes out of the presidential election scheduled for November 22nd, another 2 governments have to fall in order for the new president to oust the parliament and organize another set of elections.

Got to love how stuff goes in Romania