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Subject: Moldova/Romania News from RFE/RL, 10/09/92
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Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 14:27:28 GMT

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RFE/RL Daily Report              No. 195, 9 October 1992

     LAST DEBATE BEFORE ROMANIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.  In a
four-hour  television  program   on   8   October,  incumbent
president  Ion Iliescu  and  challenger  Emil  Constantinescu
debated mainly economic issues.   Constantinescu attacked the
record of the  Iliescu  administration  and  asked viewers to
consider whether there  are any grounds to assume that things
will improve in  the next four years.  He presented a program
for  economic  redress  and  said  a  social  moratorium  was
necessary for the  economy  to  be  put  on  the  right path.
Iliescu reiterated his  views  on  economic  "restructuring,"
saying that the  state must have instruments for intervention
when necessary, and  attacked  the  Constantinescu's program,
calling it "liberal idealism." (Michael Shafir, RFE/RL, Inc.)

     COMPOSITION OF THE  ROMANIAN  PARLIAMENT.   The  Central
Electoral  Bureau announced  the  first-cut  distribution  of
seats in the  parliament  elected on 27 September.  The final
distribution will be  established after the centralization of
the results at  country  level  according  to  a  complicated
system.  At this stage, the Chamber of Deputies will comprise
Democratic  National  Salvation   Front   (DNSF)--117  seats;
Democratic   Convention  of   Romania   (DCR)--82;   National
Salvation Front (NSF)--43;  Party  of Romanian National Unity
(PRNU)--30;  Hungarian  Democratic   Federation   of  Romania
(HDFR)--27; Greater Romania  Party (GRP)--16; Socialist Labor
Party (SLP)--12.  In the Senate the seats will be distributed
as  follows: DNSF--49;  DCR--34;  NSF--18;  PRNU--14;  GRP-6;
Democratic Agrarian Party--5; and SLP--5.  Meanwhile, the DCR
says it will  contest  the  results  of the parliamentary and
presidential elections.   The  decision  was  announced in an
official statement published  in  the  daily  Dreptatea  on 8
October. DCR campaign manager Ilie Paunescu told Reuters that
the protest will  be  filed  because  of "the large number of
annulled votes, fraud  attempts,  and  major irregularities."
(Michael Shafir)

     KING MICHAEL REQUESTS  VISA  TO  VISIT ROMANIA.   Exiled
king Michael has  asked  the  embassy in Bern to issue a visa
for a visit  to  Romania  accompanied by his family.   Teodor
Melescanu, secretary of  state  at  the  ministry  of foreign
affairs, said in  an  interview  with  Radio  Bucharest  on 8
October that Romania's  official  position  remains  that  in
principle there are  no  objections  to  visits  by the royal
family, but only after the end of the present elections.   He
added  that  the  government's  willingness  to  grant  entry
permits   referred  to   visits   for   pilgrimages,   family
commemorations  and  similar   occasions.    Other   problems
connected with what  he  termed  "the  clarification  of  the
relationship between the royal family and Romania" must await
the formation of the new government. (Michael Shafir).

     ROMANIAN CULTURAL CENTER  OPENS  IN BUDAPEST.   Romanian
Minister  of Culture  Ludovic  Spiess  said  at  the  opening
ceremony on 8 October that "in Budapest today Romania opens a
new door to Europe" and "an opportunity for dialogue that the
two countries urgently  need."  A  Hungarian  cultural center
opened in Bucharest  on  1 October.  Spiess and his Hungarian
counterpart Bertalan Andrasfalvy  expressed the hope that the
cultural centers will  promote closer cooperation between the
two countries.   MTI  carried  the  report.    (Edith  Oltay,
RFE/RL, Inc.)

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