Noisy meeting between the PDL leadership and the party MPs

The MPs of the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL, major in the ruling coalition)asked premier Emil Boc on Tuesday to present his strategy to the party for the period to come, due to the street protests and the drop in the surveys, political sources stated as participating to the meeting of the PDL leadership with the parliamentary groups in the Chamber and the Senate. The meeting of the democrat liberals was a tensioned one, the PDL leadership being criticised by all parties and the leaders of the party accused one another. Elena Udrea fought with Radu Berceanu, Cezar Preda and Vasile Blaga suggested to Emil Boc he should resign while Roberta Anastase tried to calm them down by promissing the MPs to change the electoral law and redraw the constituencies.

According to the quoted sources, Emil Boc required the MPs to trust him and president Basescu and argued that «  I know what I’m doing, but I cannot communicate the decisions before the Constitutional Court publishes the reasons connected to the joining of parliamentary and local elections ».

The Prime minister asked the MPs to be patient until next week, when he communicates which are the steps for the party in the future. «  There are still needed some puzzle pieces and we will communicate the president and myself what we plan to do » Boc would have said behind closed doors.

Boc’s explanations did not satisfy a series of MPs of PDL who seemed rather irritated than calmed down by the premier’s speech. Vasile Blaga and Cezar Preda suggested to Boc he should resign.

The sources quoted said that Cezar Preda would have said that the governmental reshuffling is not enough at present and the party is in a difficult position, so that radical measures are necessary.

« I’ve had enough of slogans, take it easy and we get in hell. If you know what should be done, tell us. The party won’t die without Blaga or Boc » Vasile Blaga told the premier.

According to the quoted sources, Elena Udrea would have tried to redirect the attention of the MPs to the money they will get in the constituencies from the government. And this chapter was full of criticism. «  You promised to direct the money through the mayor’s office and not through the county counsils. We are the governing party and we wait for the money to come » the Dolg deputy Constantin Dascalu might have said.
Roberta Anastase tried to calm them down in her turn by assuring them the party is thinking of the strategy to redraw the constituencies so that the present chosen ones get another mandate.

« We have already commissioned a survey to know what our position is and how to change the electoral legislation to redraw the constituencies. Depending on the surveys which exist in each constituency we can redesign the map of electoral constituencies » Anastase might have said.

MEP Cristian Preda, of the ruling Democratic Liberal Party (PDL), told RFI on Wednesday that an independent premier must \'urgently\' be found in order to overcome the current social and political crisis PDL and the Government are currently through.

Cristian Preda said that, at present, the essential problem was not the party, but the government.
\'I think that an independent must urgently be found, who should first of all guarantee a certain balance in managing the government, an independent that should be capable of also managing a dialogue on the electoral data as there are several versions circulating at this time,\' the PDL europarliamentarian told RFI.

When asked what his opinion is of the retorts inside PDL and the suggestion Vasile Blaga and some parliamentarians are said to have made to Premier Emil Boc to hand in his resignation, Cristian Preda also said that he was astonished at it, considering the fact that, in 2010-11, when he said an alternative was needed, he was treated like a \'traitor.\'

Preda emphasized the fact that the President too must be involved \'as a mediator\' in the process of finding an independent prime minister. When asked by RFI what guarantees may exist that PDL will grow in opinion polls if an independent premier was installed, Cristian Preda said: \'What is certain now is that, in the present-day formula, we are going to sink even lower.\'

\'We must assume difficulties publicly, we must find an alternative and sit down at the negotiating table with the opposition for us to establish the electoral calendar. Concurrent elections can no longer be held. That is for sure,\' also said the Democrat Liberal europarliamentarian.

Cristian Preda mentioned the fact that in case elections would be held in the atmosphere prevailing in the past two weeks, with this ever growing breach between the power and the opposition, with \'the boycott suggested by the opposition,\' elections would not be regarded as something quite sound.
\'We must avoid the repetition of the Romania 2000 scenario, when an extremist force had one fifth of the votes,\' said Cristian Preda.

At the end of his speech to RFI, the PDL europarliamentarian warned against the risk that an anti-system force should capitalize street movements, that \'we should have a kind of radical extremist party which should recover all dissatisfaction with the political class.\'

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