Democrat Liberal head Blaga: Name of new party from PDL-PNL merger is PNL

Democratic Liberal Party (PDL) chair Vasile Blaga on Thursday announced that the new party to result from the merger between the Liberals and the Democrat Liberals will keep the name of the National Liberal Party (PNL), and it will use PDL's traditional headquarters in Modrogan Alley 1, Bucharest.

"On July 26 we are going to hold our congress to focus on the merger between the PDL and the PNL. The newly created political entity will be called the National Liberal Party and all the documents will say it very clearly — and we will continue to mention this when communicating officially — that the PNL will be the result of the merger between PDL and PNL, PNL+PDL that is. The headquarters of the new party will be close to here, on Modrogan Alley 1, and the party anthem will be the one that you already know, "Verde inrourat" (Dewy Green)," Blaga stated.

According to the Democrat Liberal leader the statute of the new party considered very carefully the two parties' clear path until July 26 in observing the rule of law state and the EPP values of dignity, justice, freedom and solidarity.

'We won't keep any of the documents secret, we will make public the statute of the new party, the merger protocol and our political programme as soon as we decide who will be our candidate running in this autumn's presidential elections,' said the PDL leader.

Blaga also mentioned that one of the two parties involved in the merger will give the candidate for the presidency and the other the future Prime Minister.

'Obviously, one of the two parties will give the candidate for presidency and the other one the Prime Minister. We will see at the right time how we are going to proceed, since we have to decide first on who will be our...