In Romania, the issue of a potential attack against Iraq started to draw the attention of political parliamentary parties which are the last to decide on such a matter. The Democratic Party (PD) will take the issue under debate during the meeting of its National Standing Bureau (BPN) on Tuesday. Until an official stand on the issue, PD deputy Bogdan Niculescu-Duvaz, a member of the BPN and head of the Constitutional Forum, said he agreed to Romania's involvement in a potential conflict with Iraq. He said "we should give up on the illusion that a neutral Romania is a strong Romania". Duvaz said he agreed to premier Adrian Nastase's statement on the likelihood of Romanian military troops' involvement in a potential conflict in Iraq.

National Liberal Party deputy Eugen Nicolaescu, a member of the the Liberal leadership and spokesman for the party, called upon the entire responsible political class to join the fight against terrorism. "The National Liberal Party (PNL), in its capacity as opposition party, has always advocated that Romania's foreign affairs policy should promote national interests only", said Eugen Nicolaescu. The Constitutional Forum plans to propose the amendment of the fundamental law so that the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies have separate prerogatives, with the way senators and deputies are elected to be the first aspect to be modified. Consequently, the Senate would represent territorial communities (communes and villages), with senators to be elected through uninominal vote, while deputies would be elected through mixed vote, said Cristian Pirvulescu, representative of Pro Democracy Association (APD), during the works of the Constitutional Forum.

The members of the forum following talks with citizens found that proposals to extend from four to five years the presidential term of office as well as administrative regionalisation