One newspaper on Wednesday counts how much will cost the state to implement the President’s idea to offer 11,600 euro from the budget for all local candidates and Parliamentarians. IMF is willing to negotiate with Romanian authorities the period of the new agreement after the first one expires. Romania’s song for Eurovision will be on stage at the second semi-final in Dusseldorf for Eurovision 2011 on May 12. Last but not least, a pregnant woman who died due to A/H1N1 in Prahova County, nearby Bucharest was not suffering from other chronic diseases.
President Traian Basescu proposed on Tuesday for the state to pay each candidate running in local and general elections, as a solution to cut electoral bribes and fraud in political party financing, Gandul reads. According to Basescu, the state should offer each candidate 11,600 euro per candidate, per college.
He said that such a measure will cleanse the political class and will enable parties to seek competent candidates and not just people who are capable of financing their own campaign. The newspaper reads that just the campaign for the Parliamentary elections will cost over 20 million euro.
The Central Electoral Office data shows that there were 1,822 candidates and if each would receive 11,600 euro it would get to about 21,2 million euro. The situation gets more complicated in local elections because there are more local candidates. In the 2008 local elections there were 362,000 candidates from 44 parties, alliances and independents.
Elsewhere in the news, Romania libera reads that the IMF is willing to negotiate with Romanian authorities the period for which the agreement will be signed but he did not confirm that the IMF would opt for a two year period. Franks said that a two year agreement would make sense, but nothing was settled and that the IMF will be flexible i
