Emil Boc: We have not reached an agreement with PNL on the PM seat

Head of the Democratic Liberal Party (PD-L) Emil Boc said Saturday that his party and the National Liberal Party (PNL) could not agree, during negotiations, on the PM seat and pointed out that the mandate of a possible coalition with the Liberals would stretch on a 4-year period and did not targeted the presidential elections due in 2009.

‘There has been only one issue we couldn’t agree on, and that is the PM seat,’ Boc said. In his opinion, the PD-L had a moral right to claim the PM seat not for having outstripped PNL in elections but for having also won the competition with the Social Democratic Party (PSD) by winning most seats in Parliament.

‘The text of the Constitution itself gives PD-L the first chance in forming a Government around the PD-L and on a government programme negotiated with the political parties,’ Boc explained.

The head of the PD-L underscored that negotiations with the Liberals did not focus on assigning a candidate for the PM seat, but on the principle of his appointment, adding the his party could not give up the PM seat as it won the parliamentary elections.

Boc also said this was the first round of negotiations with the Liberals, a next one being schedule after PM Tariceanu returns from abroad. Boc has not ruled out negotiations with the Social Democrats, though he did not mention any particular date for it.

The Democratic Liberal leader said a possible alliance with the PNL would have a 4-year mandate without referring the presidential elections due in 2009.

‘I have clearly and unequivocally said it. We are talking about a
4-year mandate. The head of state has explicitly required us not to introduce in any negotiations with the parties, the candidacies for the 2009 presidential elections. Presidential elections in 2009 have nothing to do with our negotiations with the PNL,’ Boc underscored. AGERPRES