Ongoing political scandals between the President and the Prime Minister of Romania are heralding the fall parliamentary elections, one newspaper reads on Wednesday. Elsewhere in the news, Romania's General Police Department spent some 113,000,000 euro for overpriced Logan cars and other specialized cars. Last but not least, Gerard Depardieu's son, Guillaume, died in Paris after a wrong diagnostic in Romanian hospitals.
All newspapers read about the new controversy between Romania's President Traian Basescu and PM Calin Popescu Tariceanu. Romania's Interior ministry approved a 113,000,000 bill for overpriced cars to improve the Romanian General Police Department's stock, Evenimentul Zilei reads.
The sum is pretty hard to legitimize even by Gheorghe Popa, who approved and signed the 28 acquisition contracts from the same company, Ager Leasing IFN, one of the Interior ministry's collaborators.
Yesterday, the list of acquisitions put an end to a meeting of the Superior Council of Defense, stirring up new controversies between President Basescu and members of the government. To be more specific, Basescu accused Interior minister Cristian David of the attempt to cover up the contracts by validating within the Council, where all information is classed as state secret.
Basescu declared that he ceased the meeting because he refuses to classify the contracts that attest the way public money is being spent within a ministry. Moreover, he added that the price of the acquired cars are three times their normal price.
At his turn, Romanian PM Calin Popescu Tariceanu declared that Basescu has already entered the electoral battle and he is using two institutions to create an artificial subject that incriminates the government right before the start of the electoral campaign.
Shortly after, sources of the Ministry d