During spring, Frunda supported his party's option to impeach President Traian Băsescu for allegedly unconstitutional conduct. Before the May referendum reconfirmed Băsescu, Frunda commented on the UDMR's choice before TVR 1 cameras, confronted with the pro-Băsescu intellectual Gabriel Liiceanu. On the occasion, Liiceanu asked Frunda to explain how the UDMR could tolerate being on the same pro-impeachment camp as the Greater Romania Party; according to "Dilema Veche" political commentator Cristian Ghinea, the reply was unsatisfactory. Ghinea sarcastically noted that there was an additional paradox to be noted, since the Greater Romania agenda was "anti-mafia", whereas Frunda "now seems to me the most cleaned-up front for the corrupt system."