Social Democratic tycoons threaten to break the governing alliance after the European Parliamentary elections on Sunday, June 7, one newspaper reads on Wednesday. Also about the Social Democratic Party, the influential PSD member Miron Mitrea attempts to avoid prosecution in a file, in which he is accused of bribe taking. Elsewhere in the news, most newspapers today read about the devastating storm that hit Bucharest last night causing important damages. In a lighter tone, another newspaper reads about Sorana Carstea's surprising performance at Roland Garros.
Social Democrats threaten to break the governing alliance after the European Parliamentary elections due this Sunday, June 7, Cotidianul reads on Wednesday. Social Democrats organized a video-conference to analyze the electoral campaign.
However, the discussion turned into a chorus of complaints mostly from local tycoons, upset of their bad collaborations with local Democrat Liberals. Sources declared for the newspaper that most PSD local tycoons threatened to sabotage the alliance with the Democrat Liberals.
The party's Executive Committee is scheduled to meet after Sunday's elections and decide on the matter. The newspaper reads that local collaborations between the two parties fail to work because of the Democrat Liberal ministers, the Social Democrats claim.
PSD vice president Liviu Dragnea confirmed the information for the newspaper and added that there was no explicit talk about breaking the alliance and that PSD party leader Mircea Geoana proposed an executive meeting after the elections to analyze the political context of the party.
Also within the Social Democratic party, Miron Mitrea's lawyers attempt to avoid his prosecution in a file in which he is accused of bribe taking, Cotidianul reads. The newspaper informs that Mitrea's lawyers are curr