Reformist Liberal Party's Congress to convene on Aug 1-2 at Parliament Palace

The members of the Reformist Liberal Party (PLR) will hold their first congress on Aug. 1-2 at Parliament Palace to elect the leadership of the party.

The first day of the PLR Congress will be devoted to debates on resolutions to be presented within the event; on Saturday, the participants will elect the party chairman and other senior officials.

PLR is a political project resulting from the partnership between the Initiative Group for the Preservation of the Liberal Identity, launched by Senate Speaker Calin Popescu Tariceanu and the National Environment Party.

PLR was launched on July 3, Tariceanu declaring on that occasion that "Liberalism in Romania is moving forward" and criticizing the recent political actions of the National Liberal Party (PNL).

Calin Popescu-Tariceanu announced on July 4 the organisation of the PLR Congress on August 1 and 2.

"Together with my colleagues with liberal convictions who oppose the appropriation of the National Liberal Party by Basescu and his cronies, we will organise on August 1 and 2 the Congress of the Liberal Reforming Party, a structure we pin high hopes to for being the true representative of the Romanian Right, based on programs, political programs and mainly confidence and unity. We grasped one moment sooner than our colleagues in the old Liberal Party that we have a duty to save Romanian liberalism from extinction," Tariceanu argued.

He also declared he will take on this project by running in the future presidential elections.AGERPRES