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Chairman of the People's Movement Party (PMP), Senator Traian Basescu said on Tuesday that there is no risk for the party to disband, as its local structures are in a far better place now than in 2016, when parliamentary elections were held.
He added that a reason for the failure of the PMP - UNPR merger was that the courts did not move swiftly enough in handling the case.
"I think one reason why the merger failed is that the courts' not acting with minimum speed. There are more than two years now that the merger case is moved back and forth, deferred, sent from the Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court and from there back to the Court of Appeal. The courts fell short of the law requirement that they should give merger lawsuits a speedy trial. It was full-blown strategy to block the merger," said the PMP leader.
Basescu's remarks come as four PMP lawmakers, three of whom from the former UNPR and one initial PMP member, left the party.
