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(20 Apr 2007) SHOTLIST
1. Wide pan over crowd
2. Medium of crowd
3. Close of tearful woman holding card with Basescu's name on it
4. Crowd waving cards
5. Walking shot of Romanian President Traian Basescu
6. Basescu on stage waving flag
7. SOUNDBITE (Romanian) Traian Basescu, Romanian President:
"I am convinced that I have no reason to apologise to anybody."
8. Wide pan over crowd
9. SOUNDBITE (Romanian) Traian Basescu, Romanian President:
"If I was willing to negotiate with other parties, especially the ones that voted today, with the Romanian administration, maybe today I would not have been suspended. I didn't do it (negotiate). I am not going to do it and I will return to the people."
10. Pull back to wide of crowd
11. Various of Basescu walking along shaking hands with people in crowd
12. Basescu holding baby and posing for pictures
STORYLINE
Romanian President Traian Basescu was unrepentant on Thursday as he addressed a crowd of supporters shortly after the country's parliament voted to suspend him.
"I am convinced that I have no reason to apologise to anybody," he said.
The suspension brought to a head months of arguing between the president and his prime minister and ushered in a period of uncertainty in a country which this year joined the European Union and is a key US ally which has sent troops to Iraq.
The vote in the opposition-dominated parliament was ostensibly about abuse of power allegations ranging from wiretapping ministers' phones to criticising judges, but behind the scenes is a political feud between the caustic Basescu and his more straight-laced rival, Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu.
"If I was willing to negotiate with other parties, especially the ones that voted today, with the Romanian administration, maybe today I would not have been suspended," Basescu told his wildly cheering supporters.
"I didn't do it (negotiate). I am not going to do it and I will return to the people."
Romanians have been mesmerised by the spectacle of their two top leaders exchanging insults in public, but also appalled as the mudslinging has slowly paralysed the government.
The European Union has also been looking on nervously because it expects Romania, which joined the bloc in January, to continue with reforms to eradicate corruption and raise its economy up to the standards of richer members in the West.
The squabble between the two men started last year when Tariceanu declared that Romania should pull its troops out of Iraq and Basescu disagreed.
Tariceanu then hired foreign advisers to head a public relations campaign aimed at brushing up his staid image.
But so far, Basescu, a former sea captain, has been winning the battle of public opinion.
In contrast to his popularity among ordinary Romanians, Basescu has grown increasingly isolated among politicians, who have accused him of causing conflict among political groups.
Even close advisers have been abandoning him, bridling at his unorthodox leadership style.
Basescu, who has admitted to frequenting brothels as a young man, is known for carousing in pubs and grabbing women for a twirl around the dance floor, then hopping into his car and driving away.
The personality clashes have contributed to government gridlock.
Last month, Tariceanu announced that relations between the two main parties in the ruling coalition had broken down, with the prime minister accusing Basescu's Democratic Party of making life impossible for Tariceanu's Liberal Party.
There are no ambassadors in key capitals, including Washington and London, due to disagreement between Basescu and Tariceanu over candidates.

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