For the third time in a row, the governmental coalition failed to reach an agreement in the Chamber of Deputies on the immunity of former PM Adrian Nastase, one newspaper reads on Tuesday. Elsewhere in the news, the government assumed the new judicial codes despite civil society protests and dissatisfaction from prosecutors. Last but not least, journalist Sorin Rosca Stanescu to sue President Basescu for false declarations.
Cotidianul reads that, on Tuesday, the file in which former PM Adrian Nastase is investigated for corruption will be on the agenda of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies. For the third time in a row, the newspaper reads, the governmental coalition failed to reach a consensus during the debates in the Chamber regarding Nastase's immunity.
After three hours of intense debates, the Chamber of Deputies decided how to deal with Nastase's case. Therefore, the paper reads, Social Democrats, Liberals and Hungarian Democrats outrun the Democrat Liberals and thus decided that the Chamber should cast a vote on the Regulations Committee report which stated that the request of the general prosecutor is not legal.
Romania's general prosecutor, Laura Codruta Kovesi officially requested the Chamber to recast the vote taken on August 13, 2008 on Nastase's file arguing that, meanwhile, the immunity status of Parliamentarians was changed by the Constitutional Court.
If the Chamber of Deputies will vote for the report, then Nastase's file will be closed. Also on the agenda on Tuesday, the Chamber will decide whether it will set up a committee to investigate the Sports minister, Monica Iacob Ridzi and her recent money allocations for Youth Day.
Most newspapers today read about some 60,000 euro spent by the Sports ministry for Youth Day manifestations. Cotidianul reads that even though official documents reveal th
