Isarescu's supporters asked to leave PNL

According to the prime deputy chairman of the National Liberal Party (PNL), Valeriu Stoica, Traian Decebal Remes and the other Liberals who are supporting the candidacy of current Prime Minister Mugur Isarescu for the position of country president should submit their resignations from the party in case they should refuse to accept the decision that PNL Congress has to make tomorrow. The decision is linked to the support granted by the Liberal Party to Theodor Stolojan.

At the same time, chairman of the Liberal Party Mircea Ionescu-Quintus called for unity within the party, in an open letter addressed to PNL members. According to Valeriu Stoica, Remes and the other supporters of Premier Mugur Isarescu have to make a choice between working for the candidacy of Stolojan and making “an honourable gesture” that is called for when a member dissociates himself from the decision of the Congress.

Inquired whether this honourable gesture meant submitting one’s resignation from the party, Stoca replied that “this is the logical consequence”. “I hope that those who will dissociate themselves from the decision made by the Extraordinary Congress prove they have pride and dignity,” Stoica continued its explanation.

At the same time, he said he was hoping that he would not be forced to apply the provisions of the Party’s Statute “in an extreme situation.” Finance minister Traian Decebal Remes yesterday accused Valeriu Stoica of “typically totalitarian firmness.”

According to Remes, Stoica has already enforced a list including the persons who are to take the floor during the Extraordinary Congress of the Liberal Party.