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BUCHAREST, Romania - The opposition on Sunday protested to broadcasting authorities saying that news of President Ion Iliescu getting a haircut on prime-time television was illegal election campaigning.
Last week Iliescu appeared on private television station Antena 1 news program at the barber's getting a "youthful" haircut. The head of Antena 1 is a close political ally of the ruling Social Democratic Party.
By law, Romania's president is not allowed to campaign on behalf of a party or politician.
"The alliance considers that the haircut of President Ion Iliescu is not in the public interest," a statement from the centrist Justice and Truth Alliance said. "This news item is electoral campaigning and all it does is promote the image of Iliescu at prime time."
There was no immediate response from broadcasting authorities to the protest.
Iliescu is running for a seat in the Romanian Senate, after he steps down as president after the Nov. 28 presidential and parliamentary elections. He will likely head the ruling Social Democratic Party.
He has been criticized by the opposition and some media of illegally lending his considerable popular appeal to the ruling party, which is fighting to win the most closely contested elections of recent times.
There was no immediate response from his office to the criticism. However on Friday Iliescu said that criticism about his participation in the campaign was a sign that people were becoming "bad tempered." EuroAtlantic Club: http://www.europe.org.ro/euroatlantic_club/ *** Birou de traduceri autorizate. Oana Gheorghiu - tel/fax: 252.8681 / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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