MEP Graham Watson, ALDE pan party president, said in a telephone intervention on the "Daily Summary" show that Liberal leader Crin Antonescu had either lost his mind or ha had been bribed to join the EPP.
"There is no logical reason for a liberal party to join a party that supported Basescu for so many years. The EPP is both Viktor Orban’s party as it is the party of Boyko Metodiev Borisov and of Berlusconi. There is absolutely no way that it can be a liberal party " Graham Watson said, on Antena 3.
Mihai Gâdea presented on Antena 3, a few of the several interviews that the ALDE president, Graham Watson, and the ALDE group leader, Guy Verhofstadt, gave where they talked about the family of the European People’s (EPP) and the unconditional support that this party granted to Traian Băsescu