In spite of an aggressive exchange of accusations, parties that have chances to enter the future Parliament have tried to consider, even before the official start of the electoral campaign, various possibilities as to the alliances that might bring them benefits, within a possible Government coalition.
PN?CD (Peasants' Party) general secretary Remus Opris on Monday proposed a reconciliation with PNL (Liberal Party), inviting this party's leaders to conclude a pre-electoral "non-aggression pact".
He also suggested that the candidate having ranked first in the first round of the presidentials should receive support in the second one. The non-aggression pact is necessary in order to ensure "the coherence of the government" and it is important both for the Peasants and for the Liberals, as both parties are centre-right oriented, Remus Opris told Ziarul Financiar.
Liberals are ready to sign such an agreement, which is "natural", according to deputy chairman Paul Pacuraru. He told Ziarul Financiar that mutual support in the second round of the presidentials was "obvious." "We are not going to compete with the Peasants," Liberal vice president maintains.
PDSR (Party of Social Democracy) leader Ion Iliescu has recently accepted the possibility of creating, after the elections, an alliance with the two large social-democrat parties - PD (Democrat Party) and ApR (The Alliance for Romania) - whose basis should be laid before the elections.
PD leader Petre Roman admitted such a possibility, but conditioned the dialogue on reforming PDSR's "political thought." "PDSR should reform its political ideas in order to make it easier for us to have dialogue," Roman said. " We are going to consider alliances before the elections as well, as we are responsible for the future Government," he added.
In his turn, PD deputy chairman Bogdan Niculescu Duvaz stated that an alliance with PDSR is possible since "this is a point many are heading toward, especially PNL". He specified however that PD would initiate, ahead of elections, discussions with all parties, "with the exception of PRM (Great Romania Party)", meant to draw up a ruling programme.
"We are open to discussions with PD and ApR, but they should be open, too," Dan Matei Agaton, PDSR leader, yesterday told Ziarul Financiar. For the time being, the only certitude for this party is an alliance with PDSR, though political negotiations in themselves, for the setting up of an alliance, will start next week, Agaton specified.
UDMR (Democrat Union of Hungarians in Romania) has been contacted by several parties, but, so far, the Union has not issued a decision, UDMR chairman Marko Bella told "Mahgyar Hirlap" newspaper in Budapest, quoted by Mediafax news agency.
Marko admitted that the choice is a difficult one because of the split of CDR. The Union does not want to interfere in disputes between parties, Marko explained, but admitted that, when it comes to choosing a president, the Union would get involved on the side of one candidate since the 7-8 percentage points of the Hungarians could advantage the candidate they would support.
The only party saying that it will not negotiate anything ahead of elections is ApR. "All pre-electoral agreement with PDSR is out of question," but an alliance, in the wake of elections, might be one of variants, the party's deputy chairman, Vladimir Pasti, told us.
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