The Corsair

President Basescu is a very confident and transparent player. This strategy isn’t quite a known fact for the great maestros of the combinations. They are used to seeing the political messages as fake targets.

Basescu’s style is so rough and direct that even his men and the part of the press supporting him might think the other way. I am not referring to the interview during the Ciorbea Parliament. We’ll stop to something closer, to the "hot" statement made right after the first round of the elections. At that time, I was shocked by the violence of his fraud accusations. It was obvious that he wasn’t holding all the cards then. He wasn’t able to prove the fraud, even if he felt or knew something about it. At that time, I thought that jumping to such conclusion, bringing the Justice’s and law forces’ names up in front, asking for people to be arrested with such little proof meant a huge mistake. It wasn’t a bluff since everyone knows about this electoral fraud. It looked like a psychological game. I thought it was a dangerous ("irresponsible", as a friend told me) game, which might have caused the definite end of the Alliance.

Even if most of the analysts didn’t expect it, it was quite the opposite of a lost cause. Without the huge disturbance Basescu caused after the first round of the elections the fraud would have happened in the second round again. This was the only thing to make the SDP (Social Democratic Party) members timorous and to create the environment for the correct elections. They meant the victory of today’s President.

At present, at a ten times greater scale, proportional to his present President statute, the same phenomenon can be observed, and it produces the same dismay. Basescu gets in front again, few days after becoming President, and he "reveals" his supposed to be the most secret goals. There is no official (no sane man to play a political game, I might say) to do this. There is no one who, after just having changed its status (due to his job), would start by publicly announcing his enemies and promise to crash them. "My God, this is too soon, too direct, too transparent!", I was shouting to myself when reading the interview in the "Adevarul" daily newspaper. "What is he depending on?", I was repeating to myself in the case of the elections’ fraud as well. . This time I won’t jump to any doubts (though there are some). This is because I think I am starting to understand this bizarre politic style that Traian Basescu owns.

I believe that the key of nowadays’ Romanian President anti-strategic "strategy" is the fact that we are not talking about the style of a politician that negotiates between the boundaries of a political game, but about the style of a revolutionary who contests the game instead of playing it. If we refer to Traian Basescu as a political entity, then he must be seen totally different than Nastase, for example, or even than Tariceanu. Basescu seems to have understood that, today, playing the game means losing it, like Emil Constantinescu did. A fake game cannot have fair rules, and mustn’t be played by them. One cannot win this game when having around his table three cheaters, that seem to obey the rules, but who actually mock them. These being taken into consideration, there is only one solution, the one the games’ theorists’ call the "metasolution". One such metasolution is the One Alexander great reached to at Gordium. He didn’t lose his time trying to undo the great knot, but he destroyed it with one sword hit. Traian Basescu is so exotic to the Romanian politics, because he applies the same method. He seems to have understood that, if we want the reform (the one promised in the last 15 years), this is the time for it to be strongly forced in order to defeat the reactionary dragon that commands Romania. Even if in his campaign billboards he cut the "r" from "revolution", everything seems to point it out: the second major step of the Revolution in 1989. This step is supposed to bring the real change of the system and of the political game in our country. He knows he won’t be able to bring his mandate up to end and to respect his promises if he tolerates the fact that the former members of the Government still have the effective Power in their hands with the presidents of the two Chambers, the prefects etc. Using a bold and unexpected corsair hit, he tries to sweep off the deck the ones that brought Romania to nowadays’ depression.

This game might seem not just very risky, but also undemocratic and unconstitutional. In a normal environment, in a political life of a normal state, it wouldn’t have any meaning. But, taking into account our present environment, there are many (and I am one of them) who support the old saying in the University Plaza: "The final solution, another revolution!". And this is because we are yet to from a normal state, a democracy. We live in a well-organized fair where the meanness and the dishonour flourish. Reforming the system is absolutely necessary, and, after all, the present President seems to be the only person with the force and courage to do it now.