Electoral campaign for PD on public money

Traian Basescu cannot surpass his condition as a PD (Democrat Party) leader. It's not only that it doesn't manage to, albeit he doesn't even try to be the president of all Romanians. He keeps on attacking all the parliamentary parties, except for the Democrat Party. He keeps on expressing publicly as if he weren't the head of the state, but a ship commander stopped over in a market or whorehouses. It is even more serous the fact that he does it in the international relations as well, with the sole counterpart he still has a dialogue, be it a conflictual one, and be it at a distance. It is about the President of the Republic of Moldova, Vladimir Voronin. What comes out is but mutual profanities. Oh, sweet Romania.
As a matter of fact, it's been two months now since president Basescu has been on holiday. He moved his work office at Neptun, in Ceausescu's villa, after having halted to the villas Ceausescu used to go to, in Covasna and Harghita. Moreover, he asked the Government that a certain protocol villa was not to be privatized, but to be at his disposal. If, against all reason, PM Tariceanu or any other politician from any other political party had expressed such a request, the Cotroceni Palace and the PD would have winced as if lashed. However, the president of the country can afford everything. He is more equal than everybody.
Whenever he doers not want others where he is and what he is doing, no one knows where he is and what he is doing. Whenever it is reported where he is and the press goes there to relate about what he is doing, Basescu appears to be hit in his private life. He especially lets the journalists know so as to offer his usual public representations against the press. But, as the American say, two are needed for doing that. If the press ignored him, the tenant at Cotroceni Palace would give up putting on frills. And he would probably give up the position, as the people forgot him. President Basescu, without a media exposure ? As Moromete would have said, such a thing does not exist.
The Romanian press cannot afford such an embargo. It is a vicious circle. The TV stations broadcast live every presidential sneeze, the written press takes it over and comments upon it, be it highly, or critically, and sometimes they even analyze it. Why has the president sneezed ? If it is about an allergy, he must be taken to the Liberal cat, as it always falls upright. It is what will happen at the next vote of censure, in case it is initiated. Anyway, the Cotroceni Palace and PD are treating the matter as a challenge: ok, let's see, do you have the guts to initiate it ?
It is as if president Basescu had been in such a cool blood after the suspension procedure to resign. It's the head of state himself who has created the precedent of changing one's mind, before PSD. If he hadn't kept his word, why would PSD do so ? Only because PD wants to remove PNL (National Liberal Party) ? Actually, PD does not want to get in power now, as it would break its neck in a year. It prefers early elections. On the other hand, PSD (Social Democrat Party) might want to be in power, and try to reverse the public opinion from the conviction that Government Tariceanu has increased the pensions. However, it can't, as it would only be used and thrown overboard.
President Basescu deals with the idea of the vote of censure with a parti pris and in a sabotaging way. He expresses his skepticism about the implementation of the procedure, invoking the cliché that PSD would collaborate with PNL. He does that in an attempt to make the public opinion forget that PD is the one collaborating with PSD, for instance when the SRI director has to be assigned the former head of the Parliamentary Committee for National Defense as he had dealt with classified files.
Another presidential diversion is the uninominal voting, of which the population has no idea what it means. Almost provoking a collective orgasm in the PD women's organization, president Basescu has threatened he would introduce a referendum simultaneously with the Europarliamentary elections, as if the decision wasn't to get to the Parliament anyway. Basescu actually wants to campaign for PD on public money. That is all.

Roxana Iordache
Ziua Joi 30 August 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english