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Former President attacks Basescu; Presidential election set for November 22
Former Romanian President Emil Constantinescu this week labelled called current president Traian Basescu a “lying, long-term Securitate informer” in an open letter (published on Constantinescu’s own website) in which he endorsed the candidacy of the Liberal Party’s Crin Antonescu. Constantinescu claimed that Basescu was man of “limited eductaion” who had repeatedly shown his incompetence in a long political career in which he had achieved little except “destroiying the [Romanian commercial] fleet and delaying the construction of motorways.”
