NEWS OF THE DAY - SEPTEMBER 1

The Christian Liberal Alliance (ACL, Opposition, made up of National Liberal Party - PNL and Democratic Liberal Party - PDL) will file a censure motion on alleged government attempts of preparing an electoral fraud, ACL co-chair and presidential candidate Klaus Iohannis announced on Monday. 'We have very clearly established the main theme of the censure motion. We have considered that the most worrisome complex of topics nowadays is resulting from the attempts of [PM] Ponta's Cabinet of preparing a possible fraud of the elections - the OUG (Government Emergency Ordinance) 45 on the preparation of elections, the OUG on the legalization of political migration in local public administrations. All these steps should be penalized, and the censure motion to be prepared by our experts in the coming days will focus on this area,' PNL head Iohannis said in a joint press conference with PDL leader and ACL co-chair Vasile Blaga. The date when this censure motion will be filed has not been decided yet.

* The Conservative Party's (PC) parliamentary group has changed its name into the Liberal-Conservative parliamentary group PC-PLR (made up with the Liberal Reformist Party), new group leader Bogdan Ciuca announced on Monday. Following the announcement, the Speaker of the Deputies' Chamber Valeriu Zgonea read the names of 20 non-affiliated and Liberal deputies who joined the Liberal-Conservative group. PLR leader Calin Popescu-Tariceanu had said last week he was in talks with Conservative head Daniel Constantin over setting up joint groups in the Chamber and Senate.

* Romanian Foreign Affairs Minister Titus Corlatean called the European Union Member states to keep in focus and analyse with the Community institutions the impact of regional evolutions...