sentences:  Additionally, he indicated that, in 1980, the DIE had kidnapped him and kept him secluded for almost a month, with the intention of obtaining his collaboration, that his daughter was threatened with physical harm, and that, eventually, he was released in exchange for pledging to renounce his office in Geneva (and giving the impression that this was his own decision).Coşea also stated that he was forced to wear an orthopedic cast over his leg, to give the impression that his disappearance was due to an automobile accident.In November 2006, it was rumored that Mircea Coşea weighed the possibility of leaving the PNL and siding with the dissident faction around Gheorghe Flutur and Theodor Stolojan (the Liberal Democratic Party).