Does NLP Want the NPCDP Place?

On Monday, the 18th of September 2006, the NLP leading board passed an Emergency Decree that radicalizes to the maximum the criteria for the judgment of the collaboration with the former Security.

A few weeks before, the former leader of Sorin Ovidiu Vantu’s party, the unfortunate Minister of Culture and Cults, Adrian Iorgulescu, asked for the dismissal of all the cultural personalities, together with Mihail Sadoveanu and George Enescu, simply because they didn’t run into the mountains to fight with their bare hands against the communist regime.

As several journalists have correctly seen, the National Liberal Party led by Calin Popescu Tariceanu is making it hard for itself by the day.

The new position, because this is new in the mandate that started in December 2004, was taken on Friday, the 30th of March 2006, by the NLP Permanent Delegation. According to the statute, the Permanent Delegation is the party’s leading board between the Congresses. However, such a crucial novelty in the NLP strategy cannot the result of the decision of a small group formed by members of the leading board. Only the Congress can take the full responsibility for the huge consequences on the party’s destiny.

Seeing the attention that NLP pays to denouncing the communism, there is one question that comes to mind:

Who decided for assuming this goal in the name of the entire party? Was this decision the result of a thorough investigation of the positive and negative electoral consequences of a fight against a regime that went down 16 years ago? Or, is this decision a result of the blind and idiotic hatred of the current leading board towards Traian Basescu rather than a consequence of the past?

Denouncing communism and especially transforming it in an essential point of the political strategy was an indestructible attribute for NPCDP (the National Peasant Christian Democratic Party) during the RDC (Romanian Democratic Convention) Government. The Ciorbea Government put in an immense amount of energy to start a campaign to denounce communism. The result?

During the 2000 elections, NPCDP obtained a percentage below the limit for the admittance in the Parliament. At present, NPCDP is struggling for a percentage below 1%. This percentage is the result of the conflicts that tear this party, as well as the consequence of the poisonous obsession regarding the denouncement of communism. Political parties survive by giving the right answers to the real life. At present, the Romanian citizens don’t actually care about the denouncement of communism. However, DP (the Democratic Party) and NLP were part of the coalition that governed the country between 1996 and 2000 and are members of the current Government as well. The ones that remember those times know that NLP and DP stood up because they didn’t join NPCDP in the fight against communism.

Even though the NPCDP leaders don’t agree with it today, the party lost the elections disastrously not because the allies blamed it for the bad governing, but because the citizens didn’t care at all about the plans of the party. And this isn’t all. Tolerance is one of main characteristics of the Romanians. A few years after the Revolution, the hatred towards the communist regime diminished. The Romanians thought they could live quite well even if they didn’t blame the past for ever. By assuming the primitive communism, NLP reveals its ambition of getting the place of NPCDP in the current Government coalition. Does NLP want the NPCDP place in the polls?