"Coup d’Etat Specialist, looking for a job"

It could be the ad that Traian Basescu should publish in a certain group of newspapers after the elections in 2009.

It could be the ad that Traian Basescu should publish in a certain group of newspapers after the elections in 2009. A general conclusion about the press commentators during the last days: Basescu's team lost ground, because it repeated endlessly the same propaganda formula from three or four years ago, and the world has become immune to them. Emil Boc himself gave such an example a few days before the election. While trying to heat the electoral barbecue in Romania, he told us that a blow against the President was being prepared and invoked again the threatening shadow of the 322 parliamentarians.

Emil Boc is referring to a statement made by Nicolae Văcăroiu, who remarked that the President violated the Constitution more and more often and that might have lead to a new suspension. The Head of the Senate was talking about a legal procedure, done to ensure compliance the abidance by the law. For the mayor of Cluj, such an approach would represent a constitutional "coup d’etat", because it would concern a president of divine law, an untouchable one. Mr. Boc forgets a simple thing: Traian Băsescu himself is the one who has based his career simply on "coups" of all kinds.

The “Coups de Gouvernement”. In 1997, Minister Basescu gave an interview in which he was so harshly critical of the executive, the part of which he was, in such a way that the Prime Minister had to resign several weeks later. It's an unexpected law procedure and totally different from the European political practices. Today, the entire staff of the PD-L said on television that a minister who does not agree with the government must resign. Period. In 1997, this was not true.

The “Coup de Parti”. In 2000, after he became mayor of the capital, Basescu ditched Petre Roman from the leading board of the Democratic Party and quickly changed the whole management of this party. In 2006, he gave a "Coup de Parti" to the Liberal National Party by taking a slice of it and pasting it to PD.

The “Coup de Mairie”. In 2004, the same Basescu has obtained a new mandate in Bucharest, by asking the citizens to vote for him as well as for a general council and for the district mayors on his side. The citizens have largely complied with the measure, while Basescu left the City Hall in six months without making anything that he had promised.

Coup d’Etat? In November 2004, Basescu informed Romania and the world that the parliamentary elections had been illegal. After he earned the expected effect, namely the President position, he completely forgot about that, despite the extreme seriousness of his accusations. The accusations, mentioned in the Criminal Code, have been rejected by “dear” Monica Macovei.

Coup d’Etat? In December 2004, Basescu has formed a government against a party which had won the elections, PSD, but with a majority based on the votes obtained by the alliance with PC and UDMR. The government artificially proved to be the beginning of a period of unstable government, a chaotic and damaging period against the public interest. During the years, Basescu tried to get the Government down, even if he had built it, and tried to start the before-term elections when Romania needed to enter the EU and to handle complicated issues.

This could continue. While Emil Boc shouts that the President is in danger, the President himself notifies us from Iasi, where he led the for-nothing campaign for PD-L, that he could build the government after the next general elections at his own will, but not at the will of the electorate. Fortunately, as seen across the country, fewer and fewer people are willing to believe that the interests of Traian Băsescu have any connection to the national interests.