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Viewing cable 09BUCHAREST808, Romania Election Update: Timisoara Coalition Agreement

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
09BUCHAREST808 2009-12-04 14:04 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Bucharest
VZCZCXRO7907
RR RUEHIK
DE RUEHBM #0808 3381404
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 041404Z DEC 09
FM AMEMBASSY BUCHAREST
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 0135
INFO RUEHZL/EUROPEAN POLITICAL COLLECTIVE
UNCLAS BUCHAREST 000808 
 
SENSITIVE, SIPDIS 
 
DEPT FOR EUR/CE ASCHEIBE 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV RO
 
SUBJECT:  Romania Election Update:  Timisoara Coalition Agreement 
Sparks Protests 
 
1. (SBU) Summary:  On December 1, the Social Democratic Party (PSD), 
the National Liberal Party (PNL), and the small, anti-communist 
National Christian Democratic Peasants' Party (PNTCD) signed a 
"Partnership for Timisoara," whose main provision is joint support 
for PSD presidential candidate Mircea Geoana in the December 6 
runoff.  Their use of the historical main square in Timisoara - 
where the 1989 Revolution began - triggered anti-PSD demonstrations 
in Timisoara itself, Bucharest, and several other Romanian cities. 
PDL denied any involvement in organizing the protests, while PSD and 
PNL warned that the protests may be precursors of post-election 
street disturbances orchestrated by Basescu and PDL.  End Summary. 
 
HEATED RHETORIC AND PROTESTS 
 
2. (SBU) On December 1, Romania's National Day, PNL chairman Crin 
Antonescu, PSD chairman and presidential candidate Mircea Geoana, 
PNTCD chairman Radu Sarbu, Timisoara Mayor Gheorghe Ciuhandu 
(PNTCD), and PSD-PNL's proposed Prime Minister and Sibiu Mayor Klaus 
Iohannis signed a "Partnership for Timisoara" pledging support for 
Geoana in the December 6 presidential runoff.  In addition, the PSD 
and PNTCD signed a separate agreement whereby the two parties commit 
to a historical reconciliation and express their support for Geoana. 
(Note: PNTCD (Peasants' Party) was a historical rival of the 
communist party and its post-1989 successors, and Geoana had pushed 
for the reconciliation to boost his image as a uniter. When 
unveiling the PSD-PNTCD agreement, PNTCD's Radu Sarbu announced that 
the late, revered PNTCD leader Corneliu Coposu would have blessed 
it. Coposu was the leader of the PNTCD from 1989 until his death in 
1995.  He had spent 17 years in communist prisons and is unanimously 
considered the symbol of anti-communism in post-1989 Romania.  For 
many Romanians, postulating his approval of a PSD partnership with 
Timisoara, site of the first demonstrations in the 1989 Revolution, 
amounts to taking his name in vain.  A prominent participant in the 
December 1989 Revolution, Ion Caramitru, resigned his PNTCD 
membership to protest the reference to Coposu.  End Note.)  In their 
addresses, political leaders described incumbent President Basescu 
as a former member of the communist nomenklatura and said that 
voting for Basescu was tantamount to voting for communism. 
 
3. (U) The signing ceremony was followed by an election gathering in 
the local opera house, relayed to the public by large screens hung 
on the facade of the building.  The PSD-PNL-PNTCD political leaders 
had to cancel plans to address a group of PSD supporters brought 
into the Opera Square after approximately 3,000 Timisoara residents 
started a counter-demonstration in the plaza.  Local police 
separated the two groups and there were reports they used tear gas 
to keep them apart.  Geoana, Antonescu, and their companions left 
the building through the backdoor amid boos, chants of "Down with 
communism!" and cries for them to come out and face the crowd.  Soon 
afterwards, similar smaller-scale demonstrations started in 
Bucharest, Brasov, Cluj, Targoviste and several other cities.  All 
ended peacefully. 
 
4. (U) PSD and PNL leaders blamed Basescu's PDL for staging the 
counter-demonstrations.  PDL leaders and Basescu denied any 
association, although several PDL leaders were reportedly spotted at 
the gatherings.  Antonescu and Geoana warned that the 
counter-demonstrations could be a precursor to street disturbances 
that Basescu and the PDL would engineer if they lost the election, 
in order to pave the way for challenging the election outcome. 
 
WHY THE FUSS? 
 
5. (SBU) The multi-ethnic Western Romanian city of Timisoara was the 
cradle of the 1989 Revolution and for many Romanians remains a 
symbol of anti-communism.  In memory of those events, a city 
ordinance bans political gatherings in the Opera Square.  Yet the 
municipality allowed the display of a huge Geoana billboard on an 
adjacent building, as well as a banner with the caption "Every 20 
years we dump a dictator" (alluding to Basescu).  Timisoara civil 
society leaders described counter-demonstrators as angry over the 
politicization of the revolution.  Basescu, who in 2006 formally 
condemned communism, remains popular in the region, while the PSD, 
the modern-day successor to the communist party, is on much less 
solid ground there. 
 
COMMENT 
 
6. (SBU) Independent observers characterized the Timisoara PSD-PNL 
event as an ill-advised move, but it seems unlikely to sway 
significant numbers of voters to switch sides.  The extent to which 
PDL helped orchestrate the protests remains unclear, but the PSD-PNL 
insinuations that Timisoara was a PDL dress-rehearsal for 
post-election disturbances seem dubious.  This series of events, 
meant to boost Geoana's image as a uniter, served only to further 
polarize the electorate. 
END COMMENT