Democrat Liberals are preparing to launch President Basescu's campaign properly but Basescu seems to want something off the beaten tracks, one newspaper reads on Monday. Most candidates standing for President announced their intention, except Bucharest Mayor Sorin Oprescu. Also in politics, Social Democrats are seeking ways to attack the Boc II government at the Constitutional Court. Meanwhile, some 750,000 to 800,000 employees in public and local administration, in education and health, affiliated to the Budgetary Alliance will protest on Monday.

Gandul reads that the Democrat Liberal Party is getting ready to serve incumbent President Basescu with a proper, by the books, candidacy announcement. However, the newspaper reads, it seems that Basescu would prefer something else after his spontaneous announce on Saturday.

According to party sources, few of the Democrat Liberal leaders knew about the President's plans even though the announcement was less spontaneous than planned by Basescu. Now, it is still unclear whether Basescu's official announcement will be made on October 10 or 17 when the Party booked a hall in the Parliament.

The initial plan was to gather some 7000 Democrat Liberals for the announcement, marked by a smashing speech delivered by the President. However, it seems that the President was satisfied with the good remarks he received after he announced his candidacy in a small village, in the company of some hundreds of peasants, without a big fuss.

Gandul reads about Bucharest Mayor Sorin Oprescu who is ready to officially announce his intention to stand for President in the Fall, his chief of campaign Octav Cozmanca declared for the newspaper.

Oprescu chose to launch his campaign on a protest day, hoping to benefit from his position as an independent in the race. In this time, the other candi