U odgovoru na povezane napade koje je pokrenuo bivši komunistički disident i pjesnik Mircea Dinescu, predsjednikova žena Maria Basescu, koja se do sad nije mnogo isticala, objavila je otvoreno pismo u kom je odbacila tvrdnje da je muž jako tuče.
In response to related attacks launched by former communist dissident and poet Mircea Dinescu, the president's wife, Maria Basescu, who has so far kept a low profile, released an open letter in which she rejected claims she had been hit by her husband.