The President's call to action triggered an internal political struggle with the opposition conditioning their support on the resignation of the Chamber of Deputies Speaker Roberta Anastase. Former presidential candidate Ninel Potarca was arrested for a fiscal evasion of 140,000 euro. Elsewhere in the news today, the Environment minister plans to increase car taxes starting 2011 in an attempt to get more money.
Most newspapers on Wednesday read about the President's call for action towards all political parties to pass the laws required by the IMF/WB/EC which triggered even more internal turmoil.
The Social Democrats and Liberals conditioned their commitment to speed up the legislative process on the resignation of the Chamber of Deputies Speaker Roberta Anastase. However, the governing party is not going to succumb to the pressure.
The newspaper reads that PDL leader Adrian Videanu declared after a meeting with the President that they will support Roberta Anastase and will not give in to pressures.
Videanu underlined that the opposition has to understand it has a responsibility for the country and that the governing coalition only urges them to give up the blockage which they instated in the Parliament.
In the same vein, President Basescu's plan is to suspend the opposition, Evenimentul Zilei reads. The governing party plans to change the rules in the Parliament so that it will be able to pass laws without a presence of the Opposition.
Sources declared for the newspaper that the governing party plans to mobilize all deputies for Monday and pass a new set of rules for the Parliament. This move will most probably generate a new dimension to the scandal, with the Opposition involving the Constitutional Court.
Even so, PDL will be able to pass all needed laws until the Court rules on the matter
