AEI leaders remain faithful to principles on which government coalition is based

The leaders of the Alliance for European Integration say they remain loyal to the principles assumed after the July 29, 2009 elections, despite the latest dissentions. They made related statement when asked by Info-Prim Neo to comment on the recently announced initiative of the four parties to make a possible nonaggression pact in order to save the Alliance. The first vice chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party Mihai Godea, the leader of the Liberal-Democrat parliamentary group, said though the electoral campaign is approaching and there is great anxiety, the PLDM remains faithful to the assumed principles and has only one opponent – the Communists Party. The AMN leader Serafim Urecheanu, first deputy speaker of Parliament, said the components of the Alliance will not attack each other as the coalition is united and has only one adversary – the PCRM. “I am in favor of working out a deontological code that would allow the voters to choose their favorites depending on the quality of the political message,” said the Democrat leader Marian Lupu. Recently, the Democratic Party announced in a statement that it is pressed both by the Opposition and the coalition partners. Asked to comment on the opinions of the political analysts who say the party is in a difficult situation as it must cope by itself with the heavier attacks on the part of left parties on the one hand and risks being considered the digger of the Alliance’s grave on the other hand, Marian Lupu said this is the faith of any center-left party, which is unenviable. In an analysis for Info-Prim Neo, Victor Chirila, executive director of the Foreign Policy Association, said the idea of siging a nonagression accord is not bad, but, until the AEI exists, it will seem strange as a government coalition means internal institutional mechanisms that ensure its unity and existence. Consequently, the Alliance will exist if its leaders find political will to reinvigorate the fundamental agreements on the basis of which the AEI was created.