The Political Parties Are Gone!

There are no political parties in Romania at present! This is an extremely serious situation. Let’s take a look at the political checkerboard pattern to understand the causes.

Due to lack of space, I will not speak about the Presidency too much. All things show that the semi-presidential republic is transforming into a presidential one. No matter the reason, an extremely tenacious "divide et impera" strategy or the extremely serious lack of competitors, President Basescu is getting more powerful by the day. The battles he loses from time to time seem insignificant as compared to the war he is winning step by step. The daemonic President is either going for a personal dictatorship or he is again facing a corrupt and audacious Parliament. You are free to choose, but take a look at the Parliament first.

One can actually wonder about the actual leader of the country. DP (the Democratic Party) seems the most powerful party. But this isn’t an actual party. I doesn’t have the dogma, the personality or the important people a party needs. It was and it is Basescu’s party, in the same way SDP (the Social Democratic Party) used to be Iliescu’s party. DP would tear apart like a sandcastle if Basescu disappeared. In the same way, CP (the Conservatory Party) formed around Dan Voiculescu and it is extremely small. I don’t believe in such patronizing and opportunist parties. A party has to represent an ideological direction and a social category, not a powerful or rich man.

The liberals are the most disappointing at present. There is a hidden disease that rags them, that will destroy them. Can I mention it? The immixture of economics in politics. The liberals have territorial connections to the pure private economical interests. Besides the fact that this isn’t good for the people, it is quite bad. The Patriciu case is the indicating paper of the ancillary condition of NLP. Even though this is bad for their image ten times more than a Mona Musca case, they are simply incapable of cutting the umbilical cord that connects them to the oil magnate. It took a huge effort for the liberals to become one and, for a while, they were the hope of Romanian politics. However, PM Tariceanu tied them to the picket of economical and financial interests. At present, they are seen as a corrupt party and face a fast fall in the polls. I believe they will soon divide and the resulting disorganization will last over a decade.

So, who is governing? DUHR?

There is an even worse situation in the Opposition. SDP doesn’t actually exist anymore, despite the convulsions that appear from time to time. The party only lived for real during the times when Iliescu was the leader. While trying to transform it, the young corrupt members like Nastase, Geoana or Ponta, transformed it into a galvanized dead body that doesn’t fool anyone. Nowadays SDP is a party that cannot be taken as representative for the pensioners or the villagers that used to vote for it.

The ones that follow are Becali’s party which he made with the help from God and Steaua, the Great Romania Party led by the eternal Vadim, several other parties and little parties without past, present or future that quiver below the Parliament line in the same way vacuum quivers in quantum physics. What will be the choice of the citizens? Is there any political offer left? I am afraid that the nowadays winners are only the low and rude populists, the political fiddlers that will embarrass us in Europe once again.