Most newspapers on Friday read about the newest political scandal surrounding incumbent President Traian Basescu: during the 2004 electoral campaign, Basescu was taped hitting a child. For 2010, Romania needs to pay up 12 billion euro to bankers alone. Elsewhere in the news, Romania will donate A/H1N1 vaccines to the Republic of Moldova.
The newest political scandal surrounds incumbent President Basescu: most newspapers today read how Basescu hit a child during his 2004 electoral campaign, Cotidianul reads. Basescu declared that he never hit a child in his life and the tape forms a wrong perception: there was a desperate women whom he was talking and her child laughing.
However, Basescu declared that he does not wish to comment the quality of the tape. Realitatea TV, one of the biggest news televisions released that tape and urged Basescu to explain it.
Basescu declared that he does not recall the event and he will consult with others who attended that event back in 2004.
Gandul reads that the tape was released less than 24 hours after businessman Dinu Patriciu talked about such an incident in 2004. Patriciu declared that he saw Basescu hitting a child after the child hailed for Iliescu, his opponent.
Basescu declared for the news television, Realitatea TV that he cannot say whether the tape is real or not until he consults with those present at that time there. Nonetheless, businessman Patriciu talks about the event in detail and said that he witnessed the happening.
Patriciu said that he wanted to get hold of that tape for a long time, but that he did not manage. He came clean about it at news televisions, hoping that the tape will be released, which it has.
For 2010, Romania needs to pay bankers about 12 billion lei, Gandul reads, in order to pay a part of its public debt. The tota
