Newspapers on Wednesday read about the ongoing political negotiations between the two political parties that formed a coalition for the new government, the Social Democrats and the Democrat Liberals. All newspapers read about the new governmental policies presented by the two parties. Elsewhere in the news, Romanian troops in Iraq will return home starting July 2009.
Gandul reads that today the two political parties to form the government, the Social Democrats and Democrat Liberals will allocate the 18 ministers using a lottery system. A photography revealed by all newspapers today shows that Democrat Liberals plan to get the Transports, Interior, Finance and Agriculture ministries.
Also today, political sources put forward the governments' new program, a 63 pages document that was negatively assessed by economists who declared that financing sources are completely missing and the proposed measures will not be implemented easily in a crisis year.
The newspaper reads that after one week of visible and invisible negotiations, the two parties managed to reach an agreement. Thus, they came up with three new ministries by dividing the Finance and Economy Ministry and by setting up a Tourism Ministry and a Sports Ministry.
Even if the two parties have come to term how to divide the ministries, they did not decide on the nominations for each seat. Romania libera reads that the new policies are throwing the party on the leftist side, rather than on the right, where it positioned itself.
Cotidianul reads that the governmental program put forward by the Social Democrats and the Democrat Liberals is vague and contradictory. Among the main policies undertaken are a moderate fiscal policy and an increase in budgetary spending. The newspaper reads that many policy proposals contradict each other and that the program does
