300,000 signatures for the Premier

Premier Mugur Isarescu already has the 300,000 signatures he needs in order to enter the presidentials, but the campaign will continue in September, according to sources within the committee for the PM’s candidacy support.

Moreover, on Tuesday, the group made public a list of another 200 personalities that signed to support the Prime Minister in the race for Cotroceni. Among them, there are Bartolomeu Anania, Archbishop of Vad, Feleac and Cluj, historians Neagu Djuvara, Mihnea Berindei and Sorin Mitu, writers Livius Ciocarlie and Traian Cosovei, directors Stere Gulea and Savel Stiopul, doctor Dragos Nicolescu.

The support group, whose chairman is the former leader of PNL (Liberal Party) National Council, Nicolae Manolescu, filed in a registration request with the Court and is to gain legal personality and to get involved in the Prime Minister’s electoral campaign.