On the background of the talks on revising the Constitution, started by president Traian Basescu, the presidential adviser Cristian Preda says that in the new territorial organization the solution doesn't necessarily have to group the actual counties into regions, but their possible change.
Besides the administrative advantages, the variant advanced by Preda could have a significant political consequence: a good part of the bosses of county councils, freshly elected on July 1, will be forced to leave their actual seats and to enter, eventually, a regional competition.
"The thing is not to lie to ourselves that we have on paper a type or other of region. It is possible, that eventually, the name (county) could be kept, but the borders will be modified, so they will match the development requirements", announced Preda, Monday, in an interview for BBC, that it was the solution for keeping "the three entities which are connected to the citizen: the village, the city, the county"
Alternative variants should be found, in the expert's opinion, and for the actual Constitutional Court. "There's a possibility that, why not, the members of the Constitutional Court should not be necessarily jurists", added Preda. Regarding the governing form, Basescu's adviser pleaded for "a semi-presidentialism like in France" to which should be added a "French type way of vote for the legislative elections".