Crin Antonescu is the new leader of the Romanian National Liberal Party (PNL). He defeated the incumbent Calin Popescu Tariceanu comfortably enough at the party’s congress today. He won 873 votes to Tariceanu’s 546.
Antonescu is an interesting character. He joined the National Liberals in the early 1990s. A former leader of the PNL parliamentary group he [...]
Archive for the ‘Traian Basescu’ Category
From Calin to Crin…
Posted in Crin Antonescu, European Parliament, National Liberal Party, Romania, Traian Basescu on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Everything changes, everything stays the same…
Posted in Bucharest, Cozmin Gusa, National Liberal Party, Politics, Romania, Traian Basescu on May 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You turn your back for 10 minutes and a whole bunch of new parties appear in Romania.
Arrived in Bucharest in the middle of the local elections to discover the Popular Christian Social Union (they almost got all the bases covered there with the name and the Civic Force Party as the newest kids [...]
EPERN report on Romanian Presidential Impeachment Referendum
Posted in Eastern Europe, Politics, Romania, Traian Basescu on October 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m off to Bucaharest for a few days next month for the climax of their European Parliament elections.
But, in the meantime, the European Parties, Elections and Referendums Network has published my report on the impeachment referendum held earlier this year. If you like that sort of thing you can find it here.
How to unite liberals, socialists, nationalists and conservatives…
Posted in Politics, Romania, Traian Basescu on May 20, 2007 | 8 Comments »
… and still only get 25% of the vote.
That, according to provisional results, is all that the ‘Yes’ campaign could muster in its efforts to impeach Romania’s president Traian Basescu.
Whatever else he might be, Basescu is a mighty skillful political operator with a populist touch. A skilled politician in touch with the populace – well [...]
Liberal dirty tricks shock
Posted in Politics, Romania, Traian Basescu on May 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
“Hampshire Labour News” had nothing on this report about campaign tactics in Romania’s presidential impeachment referendum:
An SMS with PD leader Emil Boc as alleged sender was received on journalists’ phones over the weekend. “Basescu sees himself back in Cotroceni. Power has taken his reason. On May 19, show him you don’t want any more dictators. [...]
A second Romanian revolution?
Posted in Politics, Romania, Traian Basescu on April 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Anyone who has not been following political events in Romania should read this. Gallagher over-eggs the pudding a bit in suggesting the impeachment of the president could undermine the whole of the EU but the threat to the development of Romanian democracy is real. And the most shocking fact is that the threat is being led [...]
