Local and parliamentary elections "to be unified in 2012"

The local and the parliamentary elections will be unified and will take place in November 2012, according to Ioan Oltean, the General Secretary of the main governing party, PDL.

The General Secretary of PDL stated on Friday that the Opposition would not be able to block this initiative, since the Government was the one to establish the date of the elections.

Ioan Oltean has made it certain that the date when the unified elections will take place will be considered in such a way that no mandate of four years will be interrupted, not even by one day.

Asked about the intention of the political power to organize the local elections in November next year, USL Co-president and PSD President Victor Ponta reiterated the fact that the Social Liberal Union did not agree with the unification of the elections, reasoning that the local elections cannot be organized in November, since the mandates of those who had been elected expire in June.

Victor Ponta declared that, in the beginning, the electoral legislation should be changed.
"I cannot hold the local elections in November because the mandates expire in June. The legislation must be changed. Let us see the legislation, all they do is blab, but they are not capable of writing a piece of paper. This is what they said about the reduction of the number of Parliament members, and we wrote it."

"I have not seen their legislative project, let them come with it. We said that we did not agree with this, but am I supposed to comment upon something that does not exist?", Victor Ponta stated.

Translated by: Mădălina Borcău
MA Student, MTTLC, Bucharest University