Cristian Preda said that, at present, the essential problem was not the party, but the government.

'I think that an independent must urgently be found, who should first of all guarantee a certain balance in managing the government, an independent that should be capable of also managing a dialogue on the electoral data as there are several versions circulating at this time,' the PDL europarliamentarian told RFI.

When asked what his opinion is of the retorts inside PDL and the suggestion Vasile Blaga and some parliamentarians are said to have made to Premier Emil Boc to hand in his resignation, Cristian Preda also said that he was astonished at it, considering the fact that, in 2010-11, when he said an alternative was needed, he was treated like a 'traitor.'

Preda emphasized the fact that the President too must be involved 'as a mediator' in the process of finding an independent prime minister.

When asked by RFI what guarantees may exist that PDL will grow in opinion polls if an independent premier was installed, Cristian Preda said: 'What is certain now is that, in the present-day formula, we are going to sink even lower.'

'We must assume difficulties publicly, we must find an alternative and sit down at the negotiating table with the opposition for us to establish the electoral calendar. Concurrent elections can no longer be held. That is for sure,' also said the Democrat Liberal europarliamentarian.

Cristian Preda mentioned the fact that in case elections would be held in the atmosphere prevailing in the past two weeks, with this ever growing breach between the power and the opposition, with 'the boycott suggested by the opposition,' elections would not be regarded as something quite sound.

'We must avoid the repetition of the Romania 2000 scenario, when an extremist force had one fifth of the votes,' said Cristian Preda.

At the end of his speech to RFI, the PDL europarliamentarian warned against the risk that an anti-system force should capitalize street movements, that 'we should have a kind of radical extremist party which should recover all dissatisfaction with the political class.'AGERPRES