Coposu solution to Basescu problem

The PD (Democrat Party) tried to do the impossible. The maximal objective of their bill against the present government consisted in early elections. The minimal objective was to reach different terms with the PSD (Social-Democrat Party), regarding an alliance of the latter party with the PNL (National Liberal Party), which will explode in the very faces of PD leaders.
Basescu and the PD forced the PSD into things three times. First they did it when negotiating with socialists of the same blood (derived from the National Front of Salvation) and when spreading rumor on and even denouncing a PNL-PSD alliance. The second time they did it was when the PD hurried with a bill against the government to be placed with the hands of the PSD, but against the interests of the PSD. And the third time was when the PD realized the PSD wouldn't make such a mistake and the Democrats came up with the bill, together with the PLD (Liberal-Democrat Party), the aborted foetus of the PNL-PSD project.
Ioan Rus, a vice president of the PSD, described the initiative as "frivolous initiative". He commented for ZIUA: "How can one come up with bill against a government who hasn't even got to work? The 2nd Tariceanu Cabinet has been with us for just a few months and they wouldn't let them do something. One doesn't elaborate bills because one is angry with some or the other, without solid arguments. If we talk about bill, then we elaborate one against the entire governing of the "Truth and Justice" Alliance".
There are several reasons why the Democrats' bill against the government was a boomerang. It is aberrant to come up with a bill against a government you quitted just two months before and in just two months the Cabinet led by the PNL had time only to prove that they do better without the PD. Another boomerang effect is that they forced hundreds of local governmental representatives of the PD to resign out of honor because the central leaders wanted so before the PD was expelled from Tariceanu's government. But then they forbade them to proceed to resignation. Unless they resign, the PD would use their own bill against them. This bill has even consolidated, until the future general elections, a majority of all parties, except for the PD, who aren't interested in early elections.
'PD naked' could have been a good name for this bill. By pushing things towards early elections the presidential party admitted being not so keen on the so demagogically demanded uninominal vote, which is actually a Liberal initiative the Democrats grabbed. The Democrats were aware that by the bill they could only get an effect of image, that of parliamentary support from the PSD to the PNL. But they didn't even get this. The demonization of possible support is politically stupid and morally hypocritical. It can be proved that the PSD support for the minority government of members of the PNL and the UDMR (Democrat Union of Magyars in Romania) is the solution to political stability and efficient governing. It is the mirror solution of the one Mr. Coposu proposed to President Ion Iliescu in 1994, in agreement with the US State Department: to change the parliamentary majority by a minority government of Social-Democrats, with parliamentary support from the PNL, the UDMR, the PD and the PNTCD (National Christian-Democrat Party), an initiative the PD appreciated at that time. Unfortunately, President Iliescu dismissed it, which is why Romania failed to join the NATO and the EU together with the first wave.
The PSD can't make the same mistake this time. Support for the Tariceanu Cabinet with view to the 2008 NATO Summit in Bucharest and the adaptation to Romania's European status is of national interest. But the PSD has not no choice, anyway. They will come up with no bill against thew government, for it would be suicide. Cristian Diaconescu has already admitted it. The Tariceanu Cabinet will arrange elections on time. The rest is just wish taken for reality. Wishful thinking, as the Americans call it.

by Roxana Iordache
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