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RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol 3, No. 10, 15 January 1999

MAVERICK ROMANIAN SENATOR TO JOIN NATIONALIST PARTY? The
anti-Hungarian Party of Romanian National Unity (PUNR)
has officially invited maverick Senator George Pruteanu
to join it, saying that Pruteanu may be nominated as its
candidate in the 2000 presidential elections. Elected to
the Senate on the list of the ruling National Peasant
Party Christian Democratic (PNTCD) in 1996, Pruteanu
spearheaded efforts to hinder the Hungarian Democratic
Federation of Romania's demands for amending the
education law in 1997. He was expelled from the PNTCD in
March 1998 for "lack of discipline." Pruteanu told
Mediafax he has also received offers to join the junior
coalition Democratic Party, the opposition PDSR, and the
Alliance for Romania, but he added that he has made no
decision so far. MS

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