S puts pressure on the Romanian PSD

"After that Romanian PSD failed to manage the country's corruption puts the Swedish social democrats down the foot. In a letter to Europe's democratic party, front of the that they want to temporarily exclude PSD."

"– When you act suspicious with the rule of law must have consequences, "says Johan Hassel, the Socialists' international secretary."

"After Romania on Wednesday responded to criticism from the EU commission's first vice-president Frans Timmermans at a – according to the social democrats – bad way, choose the party to act. They want to suspend, temporarily exclude, the PSD from the European socialist party and the socialist group in the EUROPEAN parliament."

"– does not Respect our values, they should not be in our political family, " says Johan Hassel."

"the Criticism is a comprehensive picture of the development in Romania and with the ruling social democratic PSD. It applies, inter alia, the management of the country's corruption and that the government responded in a bad way against the former korruptionsprotesterna."

"– this is a way to show support for Timmermans action on the issue. We are looking at oroligheten in Europe, it is worrying. We choose to react at an early stage, " says Johan Hassel."

"the European socialist party (PES) is the second largest party represented in the EUROPEAN parliament. The members of the PES included in the partigruppen the Group of the progressive alliance of socialists and democrats in the european Parliament (S&D)."

"the european Parliament is composed of eight groups consisting of parties from the various EU countries. Group size has a heavy importance when it comes to appointing the president and the chairman of the various committees. Currently requires at least 25 meps from seven different countries to start a group."

"Source: Europa"