Information Law strains PDSR-PNL ties

The relations between PDSR (Party of Social Democracy) and PNL (National Liberal Party) might deteriorate, as Liberal deputy Mona Musca yesterday announced that any collaboration with the governing party is out of the question in the future.

She motivated this statement saying that PDSR MPs had broken all pledges and disregarded statements made by Adrian Nastase, blocking the draft law for access to information, submitted by PNL.

Mona Musca’s personal position assumed yesterday in Parliament, came after the President of the Chamber of Deputies Valer Dorneanu had announced that he would send the public information draft law, initiated by minister Vasile Dancu, to the Culture Panel.

This draft contradicts Mona Musca’s legislative initiative regarding the law of public information access, which is already mulled over by the Culture Panel.

The Liberal deputy enumerated the numerous obstructions of PDSR MPs, coming from both the Culture Panel chairman, who intended to withdraw the draft law from being discussed by the commission, and the Public Information minister Vasile Dancu.

The minister has advised the Panel members to reject the law, an intervention that, according to the Liberal deputy, breaks the principle of power separation in the state.

“If he had read the regulations and the Constitution he wouldn’t have made such mistakes and, besides, reading is painless,” Mona Musca said when she commented on Dancu’s attitude. The Panel has mulled over only a few articles from the project initiated by the Liberals.

The PNL deputy also criticised the decision made yesterday morning to adjourn discussions in the Panel for the afternoon session, saying that this was another example of obstruction.

Mona Musca concluded that PDSR MPs disregard the agreements and the statements of Adrian Nastase and that PDSR puts public interest “on the last position.”