Although Iliescu and PSD leader Mircea Geoană abstained from participating in the session, the "Final Report" was soon after approved with certain reserves by Geoană. Support for the document was also voiced by academic and Social Democratic parliamentarian Vasile Pușcaș, who noted that his group's objections addressed "working methods" and the perceived notion that the Commission claimed access to an "absolute truth". Pușcaș also took his distance from Iliescu's successive negative comments on the document. Similar assessments were made by Pușcaș's party colleague, sociologist Alin Teodorescu, who called the document "the work of a lifetime, for sure in a perfectible manner, but ... an exceptional study", while stating that he objected to "Băsescu [having climbed on Tismăneanu's shoulders." According to journalist Cristian Pătrășconiu, the conflict between Iliescu and Tismăneanu explained why, in the second edition of Tismăneanu's book of interviews with Iliescu, "Marele șoc din finalul unui secol scurt" (tr. "The Great Shock of the Twentieth Century", first edition 2004), the latter's name was removed from the cover (a decision he attributed to Iliescu himself).