National Press Review November 5

The tensions of the government coalition, that the leader of the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR), Marko Bela was talking about and that the president Traian Băsescu himself confirmed, fill up the most part of the daily newspapers, in Bucharest.

România Liberă quotes: "What keeps Marko Bela at Victoria Palace?". The daily reveals that UDMR remains inside the government, for a while, swinging between Hungarians" interests concerning the Education Bill or the status of minorities and the advantages of power including money and positions inside the territory.

In addition, the same theories are cited by Gândul: political sources claim that both the Prime Minister"s and the president"s offer consisted in money for the budgets of the counties with mostly Hungarian population in order to stop UDMR leave the government. Meanwhile, the next task would be to solve the issue regarding the Education Bill. Even though, sources from the top of the Union declared for "Gândul" that UDMR leaders are aware of the fact that the bill will never be accepted by the Senate in the shape with which they agreed.

Evenimentul Zilei outlines: "the price of the truce between the Liberal Democratic Party (PDL) and UDMR: Hârdău"s head and the budget". PDL promised, as the daily explained its title, that Mihail Hârdău would be sacked out of The Education Commission of the Senate in order to get over the tensions.

Adevărul stocks clearly all these topics and headlines: "the faith of the Government will be contested at Târgu Mureş". Tomorrow, UDMR leaders are deciding what they will require from the partners of PDL in order to keep on governing according to the decision made by the Constitutional Court concerning the Education Bill".

Other topics published in the daily press. We keep on with Adevărul which prints the article entitled "The shameless fortunes of the trade-unionists,' on the two "event" pages of the edition.

Adevărul explains its step. They march in the top of the rows of trade-unionists which wind miserable payslips but their salaries are hundred times higher that those of workers and civil servants for who they claim they fight. Moreover, the daily emphasizes without any comment, the responses of some of the trade union leaders that have been required to explain those discrepancies between incomes. "What do you want, to walk wearing torn pants, don"t you?," answers one of them almost as another: "What do you want now? To ride bikes and live in cottages?".

Finally, the cultural recommendation for the end of this week comes from România Liberă which sounds like: "Tocilescu, Purcărete and Afrim are the stars of the last three days of the National Theatre Festival". Taking into account that up until now, foreign directors"shows have filled the rooms, the end of the festival belongs to Romanian directors.

During the weekend, on the stages in Bucharest will be plaid theatre shows from Sibiu, Ploieşti or Târgu Mureş with their "hosts", bands in Bucharest. Tickets have been sold for along time ago.


Translated by: Cristina Anamaria Maricescu and Elena Daniela Radu
MA Student, Bucharest University