The Destruction of NLP

Our political environment has become more predictable than a play, in the middle of which one could swear the poor peasant would be cursed by the others, that, in the end, he would marry the poorest, but the most revolutionary girl in the vill. This way, at the end of each week, the partners of the Alliance have to attack each other. This time, the Democratic Party has said the before-term elections have to take place in the spring of 2007. It appears that this statement is taken out from an absurd movie.

There are almost ten months until the spring of 2007. Stating things about a poll you want to happen ten months from now looks like the initiative of several crazy people.

The invoked reason (the lack of parliamentary support in the Senate) is correct. However, the Alliance has had problems in getting several important laws through the Senate. It is hard to believe that the DP leaders have had the revelation of this situation on Saturday, the 15th of July 2006. It is a known fact that the Opposition speaks about the before-term elections usually. The Power avoids talking about their necessity. Not just because they would prefer the certainties of the Power to the risks coming with a poll, but also because any statement about the before-term elections disrupt the authority of the Power.

Did the DP leaders talk just for the sake of it? No way. After a careful look at it, by starting the talk about the before-term elections is part of an older plan made at Cotroceni. The name of it would be: the Destruction of NLP (the National Liberal Party) by any means.

Traian Basescu, the guiding light of the DP members, does not want the change of Calin Popescu Tariceanu. The fact that he is high in the surveys is a result of the constant attacks against the Government. A Government led by Theodor Stolojan would be a disaster for Traian Basescu.

The trick with the Opposition inside the Power wouldn’t be valid anymore. If he starts to criticize a Government imposed by him, the electorate of the Alliance would start blaming him, telling him he likes attacking the executive. If he started praising it, he risks assuming the fatal erosion of any Government.

The survival of Calin Popescu Tariceanu as PM is the desire of Traian Basescu. However, he does not like to see NLP survive politically after the present parliamentary mandate. The on-term elections have to take place after the destruction of NLP. The remains of this party would be used in the Presidential Party, with the nucleus made of the present DP. The disruption of the Tariceanu Government is a major part of this strategy. Everything is done for the Government to administer the country badly the consequence of which was for the NLP to have low percentages in the surveys.

The spectrum of the before-term elections drastically diminishes the authority of the Government.

Beyond the theory of the before-term elections, the DP leaders thought they would start the depravity of the administration and attacks of the press against the Government. This is how they think they hit NLP bellow the belt. It doesn’t matter they hit the entire country in the same time.

P.S. Another instrument of disruption is the sustaining of the diversion that NLP is confronting with serious internal issues. We will talk about this instrument in a future edition of the newspaper.

Translated by Sorin Balan