The fact that, during the local elections, the country’s President is the one that dictates approximately 50% of the debate issues is simply based on guts. Actually, his entire political career was based on guts.
The fact that, during the local elections, the country’s President is the one that dictates approximately 50% of the debate issues is simply based on guts. Traian Basescu brakes the law systematically, he attacks and supports the candidates without fearing at all. Actually, his entire political career was based on guts.
He won the Bucharest
City Hall for the first
time and he kicked out almost the entire leading board of his party, including
Petre Roman. When he won the second mandate, he promised he would start the
actual work without the SDP obstacle in the way. He became President right
after that and he put Stolojan on the side. Today, Basescu criticizes Sorin
Oprescu, because he left the City Hall for the Senate. The President suggests
that there are rules that everyone, besides him, has to abide by. Guts.
Basescu started a national scandal between two presidential
polls by saying illegalities happened during the voting process. All the
independent controls contradicted his statement, but the guts had appeared
already. The President didn’t speak about those illegalities ever again. He
probably forgot the episode. Another rule of guts: the total lack in memory. One
has to jump from one boldness to another very quickly in such a way that the
public wouldn’t have time to see what’s going on.
This is how it really was. Basescu formed an unnatural and
non-functional Government by blackmailing the Conservators and the Democrat
Hungarians. Right after he did that, he insulted the Conservatives and asked
for elections. Some guts!
In parallel, he named the wife of a magnate of tobacco as juridical
adviser in Cotroceni. When the media revealed some of the man’s serious
problems, the woman resigned and the magnate hanged himself. Have you ever
heard Basescu talking about this? The real cheekiness means the immediate
elimination of that part of reality that disturbs.
Sometimes, the Presidential cheekiness was manifested with
the help of other persons. Monica Macovei asked for the right to name
magistrates politically, because she didn’t like the existing ones. Daniel
Morar asked the Parliament for the right to comb out my house just until the
moment in which I quit as the President of the Deputies’ Chamber.
One has to have a lot of guts to accuse other people of
corruption after illegally becoming the owner of a house in Bucharest while being the Mayor and building
another house in Otopeni with the help of some real-estate tricks.
One has to have a lot of guts to talk about the “accursed
system” from the position of candidate for the Presidency while being guilty
for the disappearance of the Romanian fleet.
I know there are a lot of people that admire guts,
especially the presidential guts. However, we lost and lose a lot from this
grotesque spectacle. An entire country behaves to please a person who plays
with the laws and common sense. This is real life. Basescu’s cheekiness is more important than
extremely high prices, than a politically and administratively exhausted
Government, than a falling currency or than certain international relations.
P.S. After the women’s handball match last week, the result
of the Norway-Basescu game became 2-0. Friends know why…