Ponta: Basescu, in attempt to deal me electoral blow, attacks judiciary, intelligence services

Prime Minister Victor Ponta said in this city north-west of Bucharest on Wednesday that President Traian Basescu, in an attempt to deal him an electoral blow by his allegations that he - Ponta - was an undercover Foreign Intelligence Service officer, in fact attacked the judiciary and the intelligence services.

The prime minister, who is running for president of Romania in Nov. 2 polls underscored he is convinced the state institutions will check to what extent did Basescu have the right to hold the documents he had showed at a television broadcast on Monday.
'Mr Basescu, in an attempt to deal me an electoral blow, did what a president of Romania must not do, he attacked the judiciary, I think it is very serious that the very person who must defend the justice system and the intelligence services attacked them for an electoral purpose and I do not want to make such a mistake and answer in terms of elections too. I merely want to say that after nine years and eleven months we have the power to re-build ourselves as a society and to indeed be good Romanians. I am convinced the state institutions will check to what extent did Mr Basescu have the right to hold the documents he had in that broadcast, to show them publicly, I do not want to make this analysis myself', Ponta said.AGERPRES