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.