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Victor Ponta, the incumbent Social Democrat prime minister running for president, says his opponent Klaus Iohannis of the National Liberal Party is the one who has legal problems, and should appear before the Supreme Court to settle the issue of his incompatibility.

Teodor Melescanu, an independent candidate for Romania's president, has stated that anybody wishing to support or join him in the presidential campaign will be welcome, provided that the support will include not only him as a candidate but his political programme too.

PM Victor Ponta says that he is not afraid of any presidential candidate but himself, meaning he might make big errors during the campaign.

'It's myself I must fear most, that is making really big mistakes,' he said on Monday night at ?Romania TV' station.

The changes to the law on community public utilities allowing mayors and county council chairpersons to be members of boards of these entities might impede Romania's accession into the Schengen Area, President Traian Basescu asserted upon returning the law to the Parliament.

MP Sonia Maria Draghici has been referred to the court by prosecutors with the Supreme Court of Justice and Cassation for conflict of interest.