* Viorel Ştefan (PSD): "It"s obvious that we"ll be stuck holding a < hot potato > if we win the government" * Eugen Nicolăescu (PNL): "If the current government doesn"t do a good job managing the companies in the portfolio of the Proprietatea Fund there will be lawsuits"
The listing of the Proprietatea Fund (FP) on the Bucharest stock exchange has generated mixed reactions among the Romanian politicians.
The MPs of the governing party consider that the Proprietatea Fund should have been listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange a long time ago, to prevent the shady trading of its shares, whereas the members of the opposition claim the decision to list the Fund during the crisis could lead to losses, both for the state and for the people who were compensated with shares of the Fund.
The fears of the opposition are also tied to the fact that the next government - which they may become a part of the following the elections of 2012 - could be forced to pay huge amounts as damages following the lawsuits that some of the former asset owners filed with the courts, as they were unhappy with the benefits obtained from the listing.
* Eugen Nicolăescu: "A fund like this should have been listed after the crisis"
The deputy leader of the group of the National Liberal Party (PNL) of the Chamber of Deputies, Eugen Nicolăescu, a member of the Budget and Finance commission, considers that the timing for the listing of the Proprietatea Fund was bad.
Eugen Nicolăescu said: "Such a valuable fund shouldn"t have been listed on the stock exchange at a time like this, but rather they should have waited for a more favorable situation, perhaps until after the crisis was over. It was obviously a mistake. No manager would have done that if it had been their own money on the line".
When asked if the state could in the future be faced with a deluge of laws
