Last night, president Traian Băsescu put on his boots and trampled all over the shoes of his political opponents, who had laid them out to wait for presents for Saint Nicholas, and who got direct attacks instead. Many people are saying that the president just stopped giving a damn about anything...
Traian Băsescu attacked Victor Ponta viciously. He called him "deeply corrupt" and accused him of favoring Sebastian Ghiţă, the owner of RTV, allowing him to win one IT contract after another with the state.
Băsescu also accused the prime-minister of corruption in the Roşia Montană and Rompetrol cases, accusing him of trying to hide his thievery under laws: "Victor Ponta tried to do away with the debt of 400 million dollars owed by Rompetrol, hiding behind a law that was declared unconstitutional. He is also corrupt because he wanted to hide his arrangements for Roşia Montană behind the law.
He is corrupt because he took 2800 hectares away from the Agricultural Academy and transferred their ownership over to the County Council of Brăila. They even began a procedure to hold a call for tenders for leasing the land and when they found out that I was interested in what was happening with those lands, they've been saying for a year, that they would give them back, when my term is done. The clever guys don't buy land from the state, they lease it".
* "I've been enduring the most disgusting blackmail from the media group of Dan Voiculescu for eight years now"
President Traian Băsescu claims that Ioana Băsescu honestly bought the plot of land from an Italian investor and regardless of what the opposition may look for, it can't dig up anything illegal - not influence peddling, nor land stolen from dead people.
He said: "Prime-Minister Ponta and his father-in-law (ed. note: Ilie Sârbu), the whole gang, think that they can use the commissions fro
