Politicians compete in making post-electoral predictions as the 2009 Presidential elections approach, one newspaper reads on Wednesday. In business, Romanian billionaire Ion Tiriac cuts short any political enthusiasm and predicts that the real crisis is about to hit the country in about six months. IMF Romanian head warns that even though the IMF requirements were advantageous, reforms in the country should not be postponed. Lastly, Italian professors popularize Romanian culture and language.
In politics, Cotidianul reads about the Social Democratic leader, Mircea Geoana who announces that, if he wins this year's presidential elections, he will appoint a new Prime Minister. In case he loses, Geoana announced that he will give up his mandate.
Geoana did not miss the chance to criticize his future main counter candidate, incumbent President Traian Basescu. Geoana declared that the main disappointed of Basescu is probably that he did not anticipated that the Social Democrats will have such an incisive attitude against the government.
Geoana admitted that his party might have made some mistakes but reassured that his party is looking to offer the needed political stability the country needs in times like this.
As it seems to be the case in the past months, economic issues loom over the political class pushing to more realistic terms, Gandul reads. Romanian billionaire Ion Tiriac warns in an interview for Romanian Business Magazin that the worse is about to come in Romania in the next six months.
In his first interview in the last three years, Tiriac declared that Romania was taken aback by the crisis. Nonetheless, he declared that he prepared for the worst well in advance so that now his 2 billion euro wealth is well guarded.
Tiriac declared that in times of crisis, labor is lost, which he qualifies a