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Romanian Social Democrat Adrian Nastase Willing To Run For President

Romania’s former social democrat prime minister Adrian Nastase said Sunday in a press conference that he is willing to run for president this year if the party appoints him as its candidate, but wouldn’t quit the party to run independently.
Romanian Social Democrat Adrian Nastase Willing To Run For President
01 mart. 2009, 16:58, English

"I wouldn’t quit the party to run independently. I don’t believe an independent candidate has a chance to win the presidential elections,” Nastase said, adding "a lot of things can happen in voting sections” when a candidate doesn’t have a structure representing him in election commissions.
 
Nastase said he is willing to run for president in this year’s election only if the Social Democratic Party designates him its official candidate.
 
“So far, the party hasn’t made any decision. It’s somewhat divided between its brotherly feelings toward [governing coalition partner] the Democratic Liberal Party and increasing respect for [President] Traian Basescu and, on the other hand, there are those who feel the party is being engulfed by melting away Democratic Liberal Party,” Nastase said.
 
He also said the chances of a social democrat candidate in a second round of elections against Basescu would be minimal if the two parties continue to govern together, adding he was against the two parties’ coalition.
 
Nastase, who was recently indicted by anticorruption prosecutors in a corruption case, ran for president in 2004, when he lost to acting President Basescu.