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In early 2005, Gușă was elected head of the PD group in the
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took on Gușă, whom he labelled an "interloper" and a "mercenary", as an adviser) and, once they broke with each other, of Traian Băsescu, whom he called a "hypocrite" who "mocks the
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to impeach Băsescu (which he backed, citing "serious constitutional violations" by the
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