The members of the two conflicting PN?CD (National Christian-Democratic Peasant Party) groups keep fighting each other, even though the party is credited with only 1.5% by the latest opinion poll released on July 26 by Metro Media Transilvania (MMT).
The former PN?CD vice-president Vasile Lupu feels there is a risk that PN?CD should be dissolved as half of the party’s county structures have been disbanded, but interim party leader Victor Ciorbea adamantly dismisses this possibility.
“If the Court takes note that the current leadership has disbanded more than half of the leadership structures of the party’s county organisations and a legal Convention does not correct this abuse, then the Court may ascertain the disbandment of PN?CD,” said Vasile Lupu during the meeting of the Suceava branch last weekend.
He deemed the crisis as “quite serious” and estimated that the former ruling party could be saved only by a new leadership team to “represent a party for the people, a party engaged in a fight against corruption.” Lupu specified that the leadership structures elected in 26 counties were disbanded, with interim leaders heading the organisations in question.
PN?CD’s interim leader Victor Ciorbea claims there is no juridical or statutory risk to have this party dissolved. He puts the blame for this statement on the fact that “Marga-Lupu-Chirita faction has a made a purpose out of destroying and getting PN?CD out of the political scene and is even trying to damage the image of some famous people once members of the party.”
Ciorbea also said that the local leaders of 16 of the 26 branches mentioned by Lupu had been replaced while Marga was still running the party.
The former PN?CD president Andrei Marga was excluded from the party’s Cluj-based branch headed by Ioan Muresan, but the supporters of the professor from Cluj hope to find justice in court.
Andrei Marga and six of his supporters were excluded from PN?CD on
Wednesday night, according to a decision of PN?CD Cluj County Leadership Bureau. Only three of the 26 leaders of this local branch refrained from voting. The session of the PN?CD subsidiary was chaired by Ioan Muresan, whose resignation had been repeatedly asked by Marga.