President Traian Basescu made a fool of himself one more time. Let me quote Ion Cristoiu, the well-known Romanian analyst: "The University Square housed a folk music performance featuring Traian Basescu". The head of state couldn't stay away from it and this time too he tried to turn a party of the retired Romanians into a media show with himself as protagonist, at a political time. He took advantage of the hundreds of people there. Among the retired there were members of his family and some top members of the Democrat Party, such as the omnipresent Elena Udrea. He also made use of some television stations' benevolence to show him on the small screen. And every word he uttered was a lie. Therefore let's talk about political lies.
I was not the only analyst to suspect the head of state of cheat when he promised to come to the University Square regularly to report to people about the state of the nation. He promised it at electoral times, deeply marred by disgusting political partisanship.
The first thing is that, under a democratic regime, one doesn't report to people in the street, but in the Parliament. The second thing is that it was already notorious that Traian Basescu doesn't keen promises. It was not by accident that journalists were watching the President the day he was to report. Traian Basescu lied indeed, for he had played truant at the meeting with Bucharest inhabitants. Last Saturday when attending the concert he claimed there had been no meeting between of the heat, but it was too late. He claimed he had dropped by the University Square, but that there hadn't even been five people willing to listen to him and therefore he had left. There can be no greater offense against Bucharest inhabitants !
It is time for readers to learn about the way Traian Basescu arranges his so-called crowd bathing. Everytime he tries to become popular, he opens the means of communication from Cotroceni Palace to the editorial offices. There leaks information, more and more precise, about what the President is to do at a certain time, about what time he is to reach a mall or a market or what time he is to dance. And this is how the press is always there and it is the press who informs people many a time. Or the crowds don't gather. This ritual admitting no exception wasn't performed that hot Saturday when Traian Basescu claimed he had gone to the University Square to find no one there. And there is one single explanation to it: he wasn't there and he didn't even intend to be.
But last Saturday he tried to fool us. This is why I called him a liar live on Realitatea TV the very last Saturday. I said that at least Elana Udrea, wearing some fashionable hat, et company would have waited for him, even for a quarter of an hour, by the University Watch. And of course the experts in presidential karaoke will claim the opposite.
Another blunt lie is the one on his "historical" right to confiscate the University Square. Traian Basescu said it was the place where Romanians gathered to rejoice or to be sad. In one single sentence he tried to cast derision on the symbolical dimension of this place, the o kilometer of Romanian democracy. The University Square is the square of freedom, but not a stage for political pantomime.
And one more thing: in his very brief speech the same Traian Basescu argued there shouldn't exist two different Romanias. So when did he lie ? Last Saturday, when asking the guardians to remove the fences separating the two groups ? Or last Friday, when he put it bluntly that he was the President of only those voting for him ? Who is splitting Romania in two, in fact ? The fences couldn't be removed, although Traian Basescu incited the public order institutions to break the law. There are two ways in which the law banned the removal of fences: firstly, because there were two different demonstrations and, secondly, because the Christian-Democrats would have crossed the street to be crashed by rolling cars. What a piece of liar we have in Cotroceni Palace !
Sorin Rosca Stanescu
Ziua monday 1 october 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
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