Anti-corruption chief prosecutor Laura Codruta Kovesi, former Prosecutor General in 2009, will be invited next Wednesday for hearings by the inquiry parliamentary committee on 2009 presidential elections, committee chairman Mihai Fifor announced.
“We’ll meet George Maior, former SRI director and Vergil Voineagu, former head of the Statistics Institute on Monday,” Fifor said, adding that Robert Cazanciuc, Gheorghe Netoiu, Catalina Voicu and Dumitru Iliescu will come for hearings on Tuesday.
Laura Codruta Kovesi and former PM Emil Boc will be heard on Wednesday.
The inquiry committee on the 20019 elections will also ask the Chamber and Senate speakers to extend the committee’s activity by 60 days, arguing that the members are facing an extremely high amount of information and would need more time to review it.
The inquiry committee is probing into the 2009 presidential election following journalist Dan Andronic, former political adviser, claimed that on the night of the presidential elections runoffs in 2009 he went to Gabriel Oprea’s house, as political adviser, where there were also Kovesi, Maior and former SRI first deputy director Florin Coldea, among others.
Andronic said that Coldea and Kovesi were preoccupied with Traian Basescu’s victory on the elections night.
Ex-Liberal Rusanu: Preparing the future ruling was on the carpet at Oprea’s place, not influencing the elections
Former Liberal Dan Radu Rusanu was heard on Wednesday by the inquiry committee, stating that the meeting at Gabriel Oprea’s house on December 6, 2009 didn’t aim at influencing the elections’ outcome, but at preparing the future ruling.
“Elections were not defrauded or influenced at general Oprea’s house on the night of December 6, 2009. Elections were influenced all through the day of December 6 in the polling stations through those additional lists, the so-called electoral tourism, through the vote in the Diaspora and by reversing the figures in the records. Figures have neen reversed, namely, if Mircea Geoana had 1,000 votes and Traian Basescu-800, during the brief back the figures were recorded backwards, 800 votes for Geoana and 1,000 for Basescu, that was the influence,” Rusanu stated.
He explained that the future ruling was debated at Oprea’s house that night. “Firstly, they talked about endorsing the second Boc Cabinet, which wouldn’t have had the necessary number of votes without the independents’ group, and secondly, they talked about closing the litigations that would have been attempted by PSD and PNL after the votes’ re-count,” the former Liberal said.