Strangled to…Life

On Wednesday evening, Theodor Stolojan held a press conference regarding his expulsion from NLP (the National Liberal Party). After the session at District 2, the Presidential Adviser was able to reply on all the TV and Radio stations. This resulted into a Tuesday-night hazardous marathon of Theodor Stolojan from one TV station to the other. Since he told approximately the same things on all the TV station, the people who zapped had the unpleasant surprise of having Theodor Stolojan in their ears for approximately one hour. During the talk-shows at ten o’clock, due to the accumulated fatigue, he had to send a few anti-NLP colleagues of his to the TV stations. We had expected him to be exhausted, since we had known him as not such a talkative politician. It wasn’t this way at all.

On Wednesday night, he was on screen again as the organizer of a press conference. Since the situation was kind of the same as on Tuesday night, we thought the journalists had been called for other reasons. We thought he would talk about the event that was to take place on Saturday in Pitesti. The fact that his other anti-NLP colleagues were also present made us think we were right.

Therefore, on Wednesday night, we had the chance of finding out a few more things about the platform of the Group for the NLP re-launch right from its initiator. Some sort of appetizer before the main meal (this is just to use the same expressions as Theodor Stolojan and Traian Basescu). The Presidential Adviser talked quickly about the expulsion from the NLP, but gave all the details about the reasons for which the Group of the five thought of initiating the long-expected platform.

The main reason Theodor Stolojan emphasized was the crisis NLP is passing through these days. No matter the issue he talked about, the expulsion or the initiation of the platform, Theodor Stolojan described NLP as a party facing a disastrous situation. NLP suffered important falls in the polls. NLP doesn’t even have a future. All the things the NLP members had done in the past (when he was the leader, of course) are about to be wasted. One understands the present NLP leading-board doesn’t see the NLP ship is sinking. Like the passengers on the Titanic, the PM and his mates feast while the iceberg is getting closer and closer to the ship. After seeing the dangers NLP is about to face, Theodor Stolojan thought he should intervene. With nerves, energy, talent, intelligence and especially with less rest time, he worked in accordance to the Cotroceni schedule. He doesn’t do it to get back in NLP, but he sacrifices himself to help NLP and Romania as well.

Of course, the situation of NLP isn’t as catastrophic as Theodor Stolojan described it. The lion is not as fierce as he is painted. The obsessively invoked polls by the former party president show an unusually high score for the D.A. Alliance (The Justice and Truth Allaince) after two years of mandate, two years of scandals. Let’s say the concern of the Presidential Adviser is righteous. Maybe Theodor Stolojan, who spends a lot time near Traian Basescu, had found out certain things we are not aware of yet. What is the solution of the Group led by Theodor Stolojan for the NLP salvation? A merger with DP (the Democratic Party) in a party led by Traian Basescu from behind the curtain. However, this would lead to the NLP disappearance. So, a paradox arises: Theodor Stolojan and his colleagues wan’t to save the NLP from the fall in the polls by erasing it from the political map of Romania. Something like saving a person from drowning by strangling him.

Translated by Sorin Balan