On Thursday, the 27th of July 2006, the unified permanent bureaus of the Senate and of the Deputiesâ Chamber have decided that Radu Timofte, the SRI (the Romanian Information Service) director, and Gheorghe Fulga, the SIE (the External Information Service) director, would remain on the same positions until the Parliament would consider their resignation.
As expected, the DP (Democratic Party) leaders (the puppets of the President), after taking another look towards West, waiting for a sign from the Americans, stated the decision of the permanent Bureaus had been absurd.
This is also the opinion of the presidential servants, who are mainly former members of the Security, an opinion they shared in writing. This argument comes in addition to the traditional one of the Orange Revolution Guardians: it is a SDP (the Social Democratic Party) maneuver done to keep the present directors of the information services.
It doesnât mater that, like Gheorghe Fulga and Ilie Botos, Radu Timofte hasnât been the SDP supporter during the second round of the presidential elections. Moreover, he was the person with the decisive contribution to the Coup dâEtat that led to the overturning of the score in the first round. He activated his covered agents in the media, he blackmailed the former informers of the Security, and he collaborated with the TV station of Sorin Ovidiu Vantu and with the so-called civil society, all in order to attack SDP.
It doesnât matter either that the decision of the permanent Bureaus has been voted by all the parliamentary parties. Of course, DP voted against it, but they are the slaves of the Cotroceni decisions once again, even though this is highly undemocratically.
The Cotroceni officials say and will continue to say that the decision of the permanent Bureaus is using an insignificant detail to stop the Great Man from fig