Tag: Shhaideh

  • Accusations pénales et soutien politique

    Accusations pénales et soutien politique

    L’enquête de la Direction nationale anticorruption (DNA) concernant la vice-première ministre et ministre du développement régional, Sevil Shhaideh, ainsi que la ministre déléguée aux fonds européens, Rovana Plumb, a secoué le principal parti de la coalition au pouvoir à Bucarest, le Parti Social-Démocrate, dont sont issues les deux responsables. La direction du parti a fini par confirmer son soutien aux deux titulaires de postes clé au gouvernement, qui clament leur innocence et dont les arguments ont été entendus.

    Selon le Parquet anti-corruption, en 2013, à l’époque où Mme Shhaideh était secrétaire d’Etat au ministère du développement régional, tandis que Mme Plumb détenait le portefeuille de l’Environnement, des morceaux de l’île Belina et du bras Pavel, situés dans le lit mineur du Danube, passaient illégalement, grâce à un décret gouvernemental, des mains de l’Etat à celles du département de Teleorman (sud de la Roumanie), l’administrateur en étant le Conseil départemental. Quelques jours plus tard, affirment les procureurs, les terrains étaient loués, à nouveau illégalement et pour des sommes modestes, à une compagnie privée spécialisée en infrastructure routière et abonnée depuis des années à des contrats de marchés publics. Puisque les deux terrains faisaient partie du domaine public d’Etat, leur transfert à un conseil départemental devait faire l’objet d’une loi, et non pas d’un décret gouvernemental, expliquent les procureurs anticorruption.

    Le président du PSD, Liviu Dragnea, considère que cette enquête est un précédent très dangereux et attire l’attention sur le risque de blocage des demandes de transfert d’immeubles aux pouvoirs locaux, qui devraient les introduire dans un plan de développement.

    Liviu Dragnea: « De nombreux collègues ont dit que cette approche était dangereuse et inacceptable, qu’il était question d’un préjudice causé à l’Etat en cas d’un tel transfert du public vers le public. Cela voudrait dire que tous les transferts opérés jusqu’à présent sont un préjudice causé à l’Etat. »

    Ludovic Orban, leader du principal parti d’opposition, le Parti national libéral, a déclaré que si les deux ministres ne démissionnaient pas de leur propre gré, son parti demanderait qu’elles soient limogées, parce que : « Garder ces ministres à leurs poste risque de porter une atteinte grave à l’image publique de la Roumanie, rendrait inutile toute démarche sérieuse des institutions de l’Etat roumain dans la lutte contre la corruption et risquerait d’entraver l’élimination du blâme posé sur la Roumanie à cause des soupçons de corruption au plus haut niveau. »

    Ludovic Orban a encore précisé que les libéraux allaient voter en faveur de toutes les demandes de déclenchement de poursuites pénales formulées par les procureurs. Une précision nécessaire, vu la sollicitation en ce sens déposée par la DNA auprès du parlement et qui vise la ministre Rovana Plumb, qui est aussi députée. (Trad. Ileana Taroi)

  • 25 September, 2017

    25 September, 2017

    CORRUPTION – The Social Democratic party, the top ruling coalition partner in Romania, rules today on the fate of two of its cabinet members. Rovana Plumb, managing European funds, and Deputy Prime Minister Sevil Shhaideh, Minister of Development, are accused of corruption in the so-called Belina case. Head of the Anti-Corruption Directorate Laura Kovesi asked Parliament to greenlight a criminal investigation into Rovana Plumb’s case. The case hails back to the time when she was head of environmental protection, and she is suspected of conspiracy to commit abuse of office. Sevil Shhaideh’s case involves land deals that date back to the time when she was an undersecretary in the Ministry of Regional Development. The opposition called for the two ministers to resign, for the sake of Romania’s image abroad and the credibility of the government. The chairman of the Social Democratic Party said for television that the prosecutors’ move was fiction, an attack on the government, and that the real target were the party and the chairman himself.



    BERLIN – Angela Merkel’s Conservatives, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian arm, the Christian-Social Union (CSU), have won the parliamentary election on Sunday in Germany, with 33% of the ballot. The Christian-Democrats are followed by their coalition partners, the Social Democrats, which won 20% of the vote, and the nationalist right wing Alternative for Germany, which for the first time went over the threshold that places them in the Bundestag, 12.6% of the vote.



    ENESCU – On Sunday, the George Enescu International Festival came to a close in Bucharest with a concerto held by violinist Liviu Prunaru and the Royal Amsterdam Orchestra. This year’s edition brought to the public dozens of recitals and concerts in Bucharest and several cities across the country. The event was covered in detail by Radio Romania’s domestic channels.



    BREXIT – A new round of negotiations for the Brexit starts today in Brussels. AFP snnounced that the EU expect concrete proposals from the UK, after three rounds of negotiations with no notable results. One of the main objects of contention regards the rights of citizens directly affected by the UK leaving the union. Prime Minister Theresa May, while on a visit to Italy on Friday, pleaded in favor of a so-called soft Brexit, with a two year transition period, in an attempt to relaunch negotiations. She promised she would live up her country’s financial commitments towards the European Union, without advancing precise figures.



    TENNIS – Romanian tennis star Monica Niculescu, 65th seeded, plays today in the WTA tournament in Wuhan, China, with 2.3 million dollars in prize money. Another Romanian, Simona Halep, currently second in the world, plays in the second round against Russian Daria Kasatkina, who, in turn, defeated American Alison Riske. On Sunday, the third Romanian in the tournament, Sorana Carstea, 46th seeded, qualified to the second round.


    Our RRI transmitter in Galbeni, Bacau County, will be under technical
    review on Thursday, September 27th, between 09:00 and
    17:00 Romanian time, which is 06.00-14.00 GMT.

    During
    that interval you can follow our broadcasts on the short wave
    frequencies used by our transmitter in Tiganesti, on-line on
    www.rri.ro, using the applications
    available on our website, Google Play and App Store, on TuneIn, as
    well as on fixed and mobile phones. Good listening.


  • December 27, 2016 UPDATE

    December 27, 2016 UPDATE

    REJECTION – Romanian president Klaus Iohannis on Tuesday rejected Sevil Shhaideh, the Social Democrats’ nomination for the position of Prime Minister and called on the majority PSD — ALDE coalition to come up with another nomination. In response, the Social-Democratic leader Liviu Dragnea announced the coalition would make a decision until Thursday adding that the options include the procedure of impeaching the president. Dragnea has accused Iohannis of trying to trigger a political crisis in Romania. The UDMR (Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania), which has a Parliamentary support agreement with the PSD-ALDE coalition said the Social Democrats must come up with another nomination. According to the UDMR leader there are no constitutional reasons for the impeachment of the president and that the UDMR does not agree with such a move. The opposition has hailed the president’s refusal to nominate Shhaideh for the position of Prime Minister. Raluca Turcan, the interim leader of the National Liberal Party has called on the Social Democrats to refrain from threatening the president with impeachment and make another nomination. The former Development Minister, Shhaideh was proposed by the Social Democrats before Christmas during the talks president Iohannis had with the political parties that had made it to Parliament following the December the 11th election. The PSD-ALDE coalition holds 54% of the seats and is backed in the Legislature by the UDMR.



    WEATHER – Romanian meteorologists have issued a code yellow alert for snow and blizzard in all the mountainous regions valid until Thursday. Snow will fall in these regions as well as in the east and southeast. Minimum temperatures will be ranging between – 6 and + 3 degrees Celsius, while the highs will stay between – 2 and + 6 degrees centigrade. Beginning December 29th the weather is expected to become cold and frosty during the night and morning particularly in northern and central Romania.



    TAXES The Senate of Romania on Tuesday rejected a request from president Iohannis to reassess a bill on the elimination of 102 non-fiscal duties, including the radio-TV fee. On December 23rd, the president called on the Legislature to reassess this bill, which had been declared constitutional, for the effects it is going to have on citizens. The move to eliminate the radio-TV fee has attracted a lot of heat from domestic and international media organisations, which argued that it could affect the editorial autonomy of the two public institutions. The Chamber of Deputies is to make a final decision on this law.

  • A la Une de la presse roumaine – 22.12.2016

    A la Une de la presse roumaine – 22.12.2016

    Malgré la relation étroite entre Liviu Dragnea et Sevil Shhaideh, le président Klaus Iohannis, lui-même membre d’une minorité nationale (celle saxonne) ne saurait rejeter cette nomination. Sans aucune démêlée avec la Justice, Mme Shhaideh a une vaste expérience dans l’administration. Décidément, Liviu Dragnea aurait tout prévu.