Mircea Geoană, out of the Social Democratic Party

The former President of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), Mircea Geoană, is no longer a member of the party after 50 members of the Executive Committee of PSD voted for the exclusion.

Five votes were against and other three were abstentions.

The announcement regarding the exclusion from the party was made by the President of the Senate himself, Mircea Geoană.

The former president of PSD said that unfortunately "this party, as long as it is run from behind by Ion Iliescu and Adrian Năstase, has no chance of being reformed".

Mircea Geoană added that he did not leave the party, but "the gang that claims to be our party".

The president of the Senate said that the list of charges was presented to him only during the meeting of the National Executive Committee of the Social Democratic Party.

The President of the Social Democratic Party, Victor Ponta, said that the excluding decision "was a hard one" and he regretted that it was not taken in the interest of the party.

"We separate from Mircea Geoană and those who have a problem with forming a team," the PSD leader said at the end of the meeting.

The Honorary President of PSD, Ion Iliescu, said that Mircea Geoană "entered the party without knowing what a party is, and appointed in positions of authority without having the required experience".

"He boasts about obtaining five million votes at the 2009 elections, but he obtained those votes due to the party, not to him", Ion Iliescu said.

The Social Democratic Party wanted to replace Mircea Geoană from the Senate

On 13 November, the Chairman of the Arbitration and Moral Integrity Commission, Dan Şova, announced that the PSD forum decided to suggest the National Executive Committee exclude Mircea Geoană from PSD.

The Commission was notified by the PSD leader, Victor Ponta, about possible violations of the statute committed by Mircea Geoană, who did not consent to be changed from the head of the Senate, as the National Permanent Bureau had decided.

Later on, in a press release, Mircea Geoană said that the PSD Commission's decision was null in terms of the party Statute and the political parties’ law, because the parts involved had not heard, adding that in such conditions, the decision did not have any consequences.

On 7 November, Victor Ponta said that the National Permanent Bureau of Social Democratic Party decided that Titus Corlăţean should be proposed for Chairman of the Senate.

Victor Ponta said that Mircea Geoană took a series of decisions without consulting the party.

Mircea Geoană announced that he would not give up the Senate Presidency and showed that the decision to replace him from the position was taken by the PSD leadership without bringing any arguments to support that decision and actually did harm to the party.

Mircea Geoană was the President of the Social Democratic Party until 2010, when he lost the presidential party leadership after the 2009 failure against Traian Băsescu.

In December 2010 he was suspended for five months from PSD. The decision expired six months ago.

Mircea Geoană was sanctioned after claiming in a filmed statement posted on his blog that he was advised by Victor Ponta, at the debate he had with Traian Băsescu before the last round of the presidential elections in 2009, to tell that he was at home with his wife, if asked about the visit to the businessman Sorin Ovidiu Vântu.

Translated by: Denisse-Meda Bucura
MA Student, MTTLC, Bucharest University