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Economist chosen as Romania's PM
Mr Stolojan was Romania's second PM after the fall of communism in 1989"Romanian President Traian Basescu has asked a former World Bank economist to form a new government after last month's inconclusive general elections.
Theodor Stolojan has 10 days to secure parliament's approval for his cabinet.
Mr Stolojan, who was prime minister in 1991-92, is a member of the opposition Liberal Democrat Party (PDL).
The PDL edged the rival opposition Social Democrats in the 30 November polls, and the two parties have been in talks on forming a possible coalition.
President Basescu said on Wednesday that Mr Stolojan was "capable of handling the effects of the economic crisis and has the necessary authority to ensure the smooth functioning of government".
Squabbles
Mr Stolojan's PDL and the Social Democrat Party (PSD) were less than 1% apart in the polls, each securing about a third of the vote.
The ruling National Liberals (PNL) polled only 19%.
It was the first general election since Romania joined the European Union at the beginning of last year.
President Basescu said before the elections that he would prefer a centre-right government.
Squabbles between the PDL and the PNL, which is led by outgoing Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu, wrecked their coalition in 2007.
Since then Mr Popescu Tariceanu's minority government has been tacitly supported in parliament by the PSD and the ethnic Hungarian party (UDMR), which will also be represented in the new parliament with 6% of the vote. "
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Stolojan nominated Romanian prime minister Dec 10 09:46 PM US/Eastern
BUCHAREST, Romania, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Romanian President Traian Basescu said Wednesday he has nominated economist Theodor Stolojan to once again serve as the country's prime minister.
Stolojan will succeed Calin Popescu Tariceanu,, who has held the post for four years, as Basescu tries to form a new government in the wake of the country's Nov. 30 elections.
A fixture in Romanian politics since 1966, Stolojan, 65, previously served as prime minister in 1991-92 and as a World Bank economic consultant from 1990 to 2000, said the Romanian press agency Agerpres.
In 2007, Stolojan won a seat in the European Parliament and also serves as first deputy chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party.
Stolojan's nomination is expected to be confirmed Dec. 22 by Romania's Parliament, government sources said.
The Liberal Democrats, led by Basescu, narrowly edged the Social Democrats in the elections, each winning about one-third off the vote. The ruling National Liberals garnered 19 percent.
Rancor between the Liberal Democrats and the National Liberals led to the breakup of their coalition last year, resulting in the departure of Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu, who heads the National Liberals.
Copyright 2008 by United Press International
FACTBOX-Five facts about Romanian PM-designate Stolojan
BUCHAREST, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Romania's President Traian Basescu nominated liberal economist Theodor Stolojan as prime minister on Wednesday, in an effort to stave off economic crisis threatening to envelop the new European Union member next year.
Here are five facts about Stolojan:
-- Stolojan, 65, was Romania's second prime minister after the collapse of communism in a bloody 1989 revolt and the country's first finance minister.
-- In those two posts, he played a key role as architect of free market reforms after the end of central planning. He was deeply involved in revamping the financial system and launching privatisation.
-- He won public support as premier in 1991/92 with down-to-earth explanations of the bitter medicine of reforms, even though Romanians were going through hard times due to freeing of prices for basic goods. Opinion polls still show him as the second or third most trusted politician in Romania.
-- After a stint as World Bank economist in the 1990s, Stolojan ran for president in 2004. His surprise resignation from the race due to unspecified health problems opened way for Basescu to win the post.
-- Stolojan has few friends outside his Democrat-Liberal Party. He has alienated many on the left with accusations of corruption and patronage, and is seen as traitor by the rival Liberal Party, which he left in acrimonous feuds in 2006. (Compiled by Justyna Pawlak; Editing by Richard Balmforth)
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Status: tramp of the netDin ciclul :SFATURILE CIOCLULUI ROŞU
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Din ciclul :SFATURILE CIOCLULUI ROŞU
motto:
"am făcut-o şi pe asta"
Cu răbdare şi curaj ai făcut-o şi pe asta fi mîndru şi fudul că ai "melit-o" este singurul lucru pe care fiinţa ta ,"trestie gînditoare" ,ă e bun!. Cu răbfăcut-o şi pe asta fi mîndru şi fudul că ai "melit-o" este singurul lucru pe care fiinţa ta ,"trestie gînditoare" , l-a făcut fără echivoc şi de-adevăratelea...drum bun
.[Vezi tot articolul]Din ciclul :"CRIZA vine cu APOCALIPSA"
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In premieră :" GUVERNUL RENEGAŢILOR " (am făcut-o si pe asta)
HOŢII si VARDISTII de aceeasi parte a baricadei nu putem spune că nu trăim "vremurile biblice " cind "LUPUL se pupă cu MIELUL"
Din ciclul :"CRIZA vine cu APOCALIPSA"...[Vezi tot articolul]in politică ETICA este CENUSEREASĂ ,
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in afară de CRIZĂ care se instalează pe zi ce trece
dindu-ne frisoane nouă oamenilor obisnuiti...
Deocamdată nu i se poate reprosa nimic domnului PRESEDINTE , in politică ETICA este CENUSEREASĂ ,...[Vezi tot articolul]Domnule Gyorgy Frunda, e rîndul PARTIDEI ROMILOR dumneavoastră aţi beneficiat destul de NAIVITATEA NOASTRĂ !
Adaugat la: 10.12.2008 16:39:23
Şi dumneavoastră nu odată aţi avut poziţii şovine ba voalat ba pe faţă NOI CETĂŢENII ROMÂNI nu vom uita "PRESTAŢIA DUMNEAVOASTRĂ ÎN EUROPA " pentru STATELE NAŢIONALE vizînd astfel STATUL NAŢIONAL UNITAR ROMÂN aşa că "CIOCUL MIC",IGHEEEEEEEEEEEEEN?!...[Vezi tot articolul]
De la BAGHETĂ la ABAC nu-i departe cît gîndeşti TEHNIC un spaţiu dintre buricele de la două
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Dar de la "PROSTĂNAC " la "COSMONAUT" viteza de gîndire "haleşte" spaţiu în " p r o s t i e ".......[Vezi tot articolul]
Încă n-am plecat la drum MAI AŞTEPTĂM...
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BASCULANTA e plină avem şi ŞOFER trebuie să alimentăm cu BENZINĂ şi mai trebuie să urce cîţva UNGURI să vedem şi cîţi încap ?!...[Vezi tot articolul]
"O FLOARE şi DOI GRĂDINARI " un rezultat al ELECTORATULUI ACTIV el a ALES în locul NEHOTĂRÎŢILOR al lui e GUVERNUL
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Audienţe de exit-poll: O floare şi doi grădinari a stat în coasta dezbaterilor TV
Antena 1, Realitatea TV şi Pro TV au fost cele mai urmărite posturi de televiziune în intervalul 21.00-21.15, primul sfert de oră de după anunţarea rezultatelor sondajelor la ieşirea de la urne (exit poll...[Vezi tot articolul]REMEMBER EVER :cu exceptia URSS-ului, tarilor din Europa de Est!!!!....
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"Textul a fost adoptat de 58 de state care erau atunci membre ale Adunarii Generale a ONU, cu exceptia URSS-ului, tarilor din Europa de Est, Arabiei Saudite si Africii de Sud, care s-au abtinut."...[Vezi tot articolul]
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Vera Putina, 82, has claimed he is the child she gave away at the age of ten, giving an account of an unhappy childhood which is fiercely disputed by the Kremlin:
Vera Putina lives hand-to-mouth in rural Georgia but displays the famous hospitality of the people of the Caucuses. Draping a cloth over the table in her garden, she piles it with fruit, nuts and shot glasses of chacha – homemade vodka.
Her house sits on a dirt track in the village of Metekhi, about 12 miles from Gori which was occupied by Russian tanks this August during the conflict over the breakaway state of South Ossetia. A tiny woman, with gnarled worker's hands, only Mrs Putina's strong cheekbones and deep-set, piercing blue eyes are suggestive of who she claims she is.
"I used to be proud of having a son who became President of Russia. Since the war I am ashamed."
Since Russian-born Mrs Putina saw Vladimir Putin on the television in 1999, she has been convinced he is her estranged son. Backed up by other residents in Metekhi, Mrs Putina claims he lived in the village between the ages of two-and-a-half and ten before being sent back to his grandparents in Ochyor, Russia.
Records in the archives of Metekhi's closest town, Caspi, indicate that a Vladmir Putin was registered at Metekhi school, 1959-1960, stated nationality: Georgian.
Mrs Putina's account is at odds with the Kremlin's version of events and Dmitry Peskov, Mr Putin's spokesman, yesterday dismissed the claims: "The story is not true. It does not correspond to reality at all."
Mr Putin's quasi-autobiography "First Person", paid for by his election campaign in 2000, states he was the sole surviving son of a factory worker and ex-serviceman of the Soviet Navy, and spent his early years in a rat-infested communal apartment in St. Petersburg.
Mr Putin claims his paternal grandfather, Spiridon Putin, had been Vladimir Lenin's and Joseph Stalin's personal cook and both of his parents died of cancer, his mother in 1998 and his father in 1999.
But Mrs Putina's claim to the maternity of the Russian leader highlights how little is known about the childhood of one of the world's most powerful men. The published details of his upbringing are strikingly scant. Mrs Putina's account also brings a personal dimension to the recent war between Russia and Georgia, and exhumes memories of another Russian strongman and Georgia's most famous son, Josef Stalin.
In Mrs Putina's account, Mr Putin's father was a Russian mechanic, Platon Privalov, who got her pregnant while married to another woman. She claims her son, nicknamed "Vova" was born on October 7, 1950, exactly two years before Mr Putin's official birth date.
In 1952, Mrs Putina married a Georgian soldier, Giorgi Osepahvili, and moved to Georgia with her son. In December 1960, under pressure from her husband to disown her child, she delivered "Vova" back to his grandparents in Russia. Mrs Putina believes that the St. Petersburg-based "parents" referred to in Mr Putin's biography adopted her son from his grandparents.
Shura Gabinashvili is a former Russian teacher of the village school in Metekhi. She claims to have given the child Russian language classes between 1958 and 1960, and says that she has received death threats about making the claims public.
She remembers "Vova" as "an extremely bright child, the brightest in the class. He loved Russian fables and Russian was his favourite subject. He also liked fishing and wrestling. He was the shortest child in the class but he always wanted to win at everything."
Mrs Putina is diffident about her son's relationship with his stepfather but admits that "Giorgi was very strong with the children. But Vova was a quiet child who read a lot and didn't like relationships."
In December 1960, having received an ultimatum from her husband, Mrs Putina travelled with "Vova" back to Ochyor. After staying one week to tend her sick mother, she left the boy with her parents and returned to Georgia. She claims the next time she saw her son was on television in 1999. When asked how she recognised him from the boy she had last seen aged ten, she says, "Do you think I would not recognise my son?"
Photo-fit experts in Moscow have been unconvinced that the black and white photograph Mrs Putina has of her son, aged seven, is the current Russian Prime Minister.
Mrs Putina's story is also grist for the brilliant PR machine that works within the Georgian government.
Commentators have accused the small Republic of manipulating the press over its recent conflict with Russia, with some claiming that while the Russians may have won the war in August, the Georgians claimed a propaganda victory.
If Mrs Putina's story is to be believed, the Georgians can argue that Mr Putin's Georgian link has echoes of Josef Stalin's upbringing who was raised in Gori and physically abused by his mother's alcoholic husband.
And while critics of the Iraq war in the US media have theorised that George W. Bush went to war in Iraq to avenge the assassination plot on his father's life by Saddam Hussein, the Georgians could claim that Mr Putin went to war this summer to wipe clean the slate of his childhood.
But at the very least Mrs Putina's story identifies the holes in the known story of Mr Putin's past. The official line is that Mr Putin's parents were already in their forties when Mr Putin was born, which leaves a gap of over fifteen years since the births of their previous sons, Oleg and Viktor, neither of whom survived childhood.
Details of the first ten years of Mr Putin's life are scarce in his autobiography, especially when compared with other world leaders.
Despite having appeared in various European publications since 2000, efforts to get to the bottom of Mr Putina's story have so far been short-lived. The Russian journalist and media magnate, Artyom Borovik, was on his way to Kiev when his private plane crashed. Allegedly, he was on the point of publishing the story about Mrs Putina.
The Italian journalist, Antonio Russo, electronically transmitted footage of Mrs Putina to Italy shortly before he was shot dead near Tbilisi. Neither deaths have been proved to have any connection with Mrs Putina.
Mrs Putina states she is no longer willing to talk to journalists on the subject, but challenges Mr Putin to disprove her story. "I am ready to do a DNA test if he is."
astazi, 10:41
Iliescu, patriciu, nastase, hrebenciuc
La 18 ani de la revolutie, Iliescu a fost infrant DE PSD !!!!
Sa stii ca ma bucur mult.