Monday, July 21st

Romania's PNL and PD-L parties may get 30 percent of the votes in parliamentary elections, INSCOP survey shows

A new political party including Romania's opposition right-wing National Liberal Party (PNL) and the Democratic Liberal Party (PD-L) may receive around 30 percent of the votes should the country's parliamentary elections be organised next Sunday, an opinion poll carried out by the Social Research Institute (INSCOP) showed on Monday, RADIO ROMANIA reported. The PNL would receive around 19 percent of the votes while the PD-L would get some 12 percent in case the two parties would decide to run separately, according to the the survey. However, the coalition of the governing Social Democratic Party (PSD), National Union for the Progress of Romania (UNPR) and the Conservative Party (PC) would lead the race anyway with more than 40 percent of the votes. The INSCOP survey was ordered by the "Adevărul" daily and conducted between July 1 and 6 with 1,055 respondents nationwide and an error margin of ±3%.

Merger announced between PD-L and PFC parties

A merger was announced between the opposition right-wing Democratic Liberal Party (PD-L) and the recently created Civic Force Party (PFC). The merger was agreed at a meeting of the National Executive Board of PD-L leaders on Monday as the union was still to be approved at a joint meeting of the PD-L Extraordinary National Convention and the PFC Extraordinary Congress on Saturday, RADIO ROMANIA reported. Former Romanian PM Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu is expected to become PD-L first vicepresident. PD-L leaders are also expected to approve their party merger with the opposition right-wing National Liberal Party (PNL).

ANI ruling in a corruption case involving a former ICCJ judge

A former judge with Romania's High Court of Cassation and Justice (ICCJ) has failed to explain the source of RON 200,000 she gained in 2007, Romania's National Integrity Agency found on Monday. The country's Supreme Court convicted former judge Georgeta Barbălată to a four-year prison term for favouring crime. But the ruling in May was not final as RADIO ROMANIA reported. Ms. Barbălată acted as a ICCJ judge between July 2004 and August 2012 when she was sent to court by Romania's anti-corruption watchdog (DNA) for unvailing classified information.

The Reading Garden opens in Bucharest

The Reading Garden opened in the Romanian capital Bucharest on Sunday - a shadowy and quiet place with books and Wi-Fi facilities in the courtyard of the Metropolitan Library. Opened daily from 9 AM to 9 PM, the Garden will host cultural events, workshops, concerts and public readings. Guests and visitors are invited to bring flowers in flower pots. Tha Garden near Amzei Plaza is located on 1, Tache Ionescu Street, RADIO ROMANIA reported.

Alexandru Danga

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