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Opposition do not participate 'in the Cotroceni pseudo-consultations'
The opposition's Social Democratic Party leader Victor Ponta on Monday night said, after the meeting of the National Standing Bureau of the party, that the social-democrats would not participate on Tuesday in the 'pseudo-consultations initiated by president Traian Basescu at the Cotroceni presidential Palace'.The head of state has invited for Tuesday, at noon, the parliamentary political formations for consultations regarding Romania's joining the Schengen Space and a new Agreement with the International Monetary Fund.
In turn, the chairman of the opposition National Liberal Party (PNL) Crin Antonescu on Monday reiterated the Liberals' decision not to go to the consultations with the Head of State on Tuesday, November 2, but invited the Government and the parliamentary parties except for the ruling National Union for Romania's Progress (UNPR) to talks about the issues suggested for consultations and said that these subjects were important and that the only problem was that Traian Basescu 'lost his capacity as a moderator.'
'We are not going to Cotroceni for consultations either now or some other time, not because the subjects and problems mentioned on the agenda of the consultations are not important, but because the President has lost his capacity as a moderator. As the issues are still very important, we want to discuss them and think that they are highly important subjects for Romania's public and political agenda. In this respect we want to have talks both with the Government, the first to be held responsible for the policies being applied in these fields, and with all the other parliamentary parties, as they were validated by Romania's voters before joining Parliament. We shall extend an invitation to talks and political dialogue on subjects of major interest both to the Government and the ruling and opposition parliamentary parties, obviously with the exception of UNPR, which was set up without and against the voters' will,' said Antonescu at the end of the meeting of the PNL central political bureau.