The cablegate scandal related to the information revealed by Wikileaks colaterally involves Romania also: Clinton demanded biometrical information, the vulnerabilities of Romanian leaders. In politics today, the governing party, PDL started testing the market to rebrand their party's image. Last but not least, one newspaper reads about the renowned Romanian chess champion Dieter Nisipeanu.
Evenimentul Zilei reads about a cable from the US State Department, signed by Hillary Clinton, requesting information about Romanian leaders: their biometrical data, their vulnerabilities.
The newspaper reads that there were also requests about information among corruption among officials. The cable even requests financing sources for political candidates and the plans of the government to ensure transparency.
American diplomats are also requested to find out details about organized crime groups, including their leaders and any connections with leaders of the government or foreign entities, drug trafficking, money laundering, bank frauds and IT frauds.
Overall, the cable requests an overview of Romania, its economy, society, internal and external politics, criminality, leaders, security, and terrorism.
PDL, the governing party tests the market in an attempt to rebrand the party: the symbolic orange color is slowly removed from banners while candidates are presented as having nothing to do with PDL, Gandul reads.
Currently, the party registers historical minimums in surveys which apparently made the party change strategies: it seems that it will give up promoting candidates through PDL symbols.
The first case signaled by the newspaper was in Hunedoara, West Romania where partial elections for a deputy seat, as it was vacated after Ioan Timis passed away. Therefore, the traditional orange color, identifyin