Nastase Government - sworn-in by Parliament

The minority Government led by Adrian Nastase yesterday received the investiture vote from Parliament, with 314 pros and 145 cons.

PD (Democrat Party) and PRM (Greater Romania Party) senators voted against the Executive. Yesterday’s vote proved that the opposition was divided in three fractions: PNL (Liberal Party) and UDMR (Democrat Alliance of Hungarians in Romania) – which concluded separate protocols with PDSR (Party of Social Democracy) – for supporting the Government, PD, (a party that did not pledge to give up the possibility of submitting a non-confidence vote) and PRM, (a political party that is isolated by the other parties).

PM Adrian Nastase in the speech delivered within Parliament stated that the future Executive intended to obtain annual economic growth of 4.5-6%.

According to Nastase, economic growth will be supported by “accelerating the modification of ownership structures,” so that the weight of private sector within the Gross Domestic Product might reach a 75% level.

He added that the privatisation process would also include public utilities, as this domain should be opened to competition.

Adrian Nastase announced that he was “determined” to demilitarise public order structures in 2002, as this process has been postponed for ten years.

He pointed out that these structures would be subordinated to local authorities. He stated that army’s restructuring process would be stimulated, by supporting financial efforts and by promoting a law aimed at army’s reorganisation. Nastase added that the military institution would be depoliticised.

PM Nastase stated that the Government would promote unitary legislation concerning the protection of children’s rights, taking into account the recommendations made by the European Union’s rapporteur for Romania, Baroness Emma Nicholson.

Adrian Nastase stated that procedures concerning adoption would be reconsidered, with a view to promoting national adoption and alternative measures aimed at supporting children within

families.

Adrian Nastase said that foreign policy would be mainly aimed at “accelerating Romania’s integration into European and Euro-Atlantic political, economic and strategic structures.”