Traian Basescu

PMP's Tomac: PMP's partnership with President Traian Basescu is solid

The existing partnership between the People's Movement Party (PMP) and Romania's former President Traian Basescu is solid, and the party is now compelled to prove that Basescu's trust is well placed in it by applying already set political principles, PMP national leader Eugen Tomac said Sunday in Pitesti, southern Romania.

Head of Romanian Chamber of Commerce Jailed

A Bucharest court on Thursday jailed Mihai Vlasov, president of the Romanian Chamber of Commerce, CRCI, for five years after he was caught red handed receiving a 200,000 euro bribe.

The money he received from a businessman was allegedly the first tranche of 1 million euro - payment for his intervention at the Court of Arbitrage, which works under the CRCI's umbrella.

PM Ponta voices SocDems' vexation upon sentencing of former party executive chair Dragnea

Prime Minister Victor Ponta asserted on Monday that there was discontentment within his Social Democrat Party (PSD) about the suspended one-year prison sentence for Liviu Dragnea, the former executive chair of the party and administration minister.

Former minister Dragnea says resignation from executive chairmanship would hurt Social Democrat Party

Former minister Liviu Dragnea, sentenced to a one-year suspended prison term on Friday, says his resignation from the position of executive chair of the Social Democrat Party (PSD) would leave it exposed in a pre-election year, just when it needs to prepare for the local elections of 2016.

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