PNL leader Crin Antonescu refuses to be part of a "puppet Government", but would accept the PM role. Elsewhere in the news, Romania confronts the US in the fight for Kosovo, in Serbia’s favour. Last but not least, Temporary Boc Cabinet signed Romania's agreement to take part in the Nabucco international project.
PNL leader Crin Antonescu refuses to be part of a "puppet Government", but, paradoxically, he would accept the Prime-Minister role, Gandul reads. After long hours of debate, Antonescu underlined that the only options PNL was considering joining the governance were a parliamentary majority or if PNL designated the PM. But he refused to work with "political leaders who understood to use dictatorship according to their own will".
During the liberal Central Permanent Office meeting, Antonescu suggested that liberals were putting their trust in the Constitutional Court taking a decision that might change the results of the elections in Mircea Geoana's favour. Presidential councillor Sebastian Lazaroiu declared that Traian Basescu had called ex-liberal leader Calin Popescu-Tariceanu to invite PNL to govern because Tariceanu was an "influent PNL leader" and because the ties with Crin Antonescu were broken due to his attitude against Basescu, even after the vote count indicated that he won.
The presidential councillor said Antonescu's claiming everything before sitting at the negotiations' table shows "lack of common sense" and says that the Government needs to be formed around PD-L, since no party holding the largest number of mandates would accept a PM from a party counting less mandates.
Romania confronts the US in the fight for Kosovo, Cotidianul reads. Romanian state secretary Bogdan Aurescu, who successfully represented Romania in Hague against Ukraine in the case of setting the border of the continental platform in
