The Social Democrat Party (PSD), which emerged following the fusion between PDSR and PSDR on Saturday, is trying to consolidate political support by attracting the MPs having resigned from PD and PRM.
For the governing party, which, together with UDMR, enjoys a rather shaky parliamentary majority, the arrival of the 12 MPs that joined PSD at the end of last week is a first step in strengthening political support.
The enrolment of the five MPs that fled PD was a premeditated action, as four of them were appointed members of the PSD National Board, whose structure had been negotiated before last week’s merger.
Senators Simona Marinescu, Avram Filipas, Ioan Cristoloveanu and Deputies Cristian Dumitrescu and Dan Ionescu, supporters of former PD leader Petre Roman, left Traian Basescu’s party.