electoral campaign

Romania’s ruling Social Democrat Party (PSD) is planning to hold an electoral on May 21 in Bucharest, aiming to gather 120,000 participants from counties in southern Romania, PSD secretary-general Codrin Stefanescu told MEDIAFAX on Tuesday.

Romanian President Traian Basescu told a press conference Monday that his recent visits to large companies were not part of any electoral campaign whatsoever, stressing he just could not sit back and relax in his office, waiting to hear what journalists and politicians say in the fallout of the economic crisis.

Romanian deputies plan to debate 233 draft laws, of which 32 emergency drafts, by mid-October to focus afterward on the electoral campaign for the general elections due on Nov 30.

Romanian anticorruption prosecutors Tuesday heard former Prime Minister Adrian Nastase in the file in which he is probed in connection with the funding of his election campaign in 2004, when he ran for president.

The electoral campaign for the local elections in Romania on June 1 starts Friday, May 2, and closes May 31, 7:00 local hour.

Romanian president Traian Basescu said on television station B1 Tv that Vasile Blaga, the democrat liberal candidate for Bucharest city hall, will "pulverize" Miron Mitrea, whose name is mentioned as social democrat candidate for the same position.

The coordinator of the Romanian liberal electoral campaign in local elections, Bogdan Olteanu, accused the democrats and the social democrats of electoral bribery, saying they gave eastern Romanian city Galati pensioners money to come to the rally in Bucharest.