By DORIN TUDORAN - January 21st 2005
This is the title of one of my editorials, which I published three years ago. It read: "The time of the doctrinarian trees seems to have disappeared in Romania. The ideological cacophony appeared instead.
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The results of the parliamentary and presidential elections in 2004 bring again into discussion the NLP (National Liberal Party) - DP (Democratic Party) merger. It is not determined by any doctrinarian similitude, but by complicated governing problems. There cannot be any similitude between the party of Bratianu (the fonder of NLP) and the branch torn out from FNS/DSPR (Front of the National Salvation/Democratic Socialist Party in Romania) by Mr. Petre Roman. Moreover, after 1989, Mr. Basescu and some other former members of FNS, DSPR, SDP (Social Democratic Party) built most of their political and doctrinarian identity also basing on the most important historical party of Romania. They form a left-oriented group of politicians that are yet to put a wall between them and the RCP (Romanian Communist Party), in the same way in which many of the people are yet to put a wall between them and the monkey race.
On the other side, a liberal right-oriented side that, for a while, was out of the after-1989 parliamentary circuit due to Mr. Radu Campeanuâs political foolish measures. In order to be one of the governing parties, the liberals should have settled with the alliance with the FNS - SDPR chip, which Mr. Basescu took over from Mr. Roman, only. They didnât quite do that. In order to do it at least temporary, they co-opted the HPR (Humanist Party in Romania). This is a party that the liberals, as well as the democrats, profoundly despise, but only Mr. Basescu has the pleasure of publicly stating this.
There should be some other mergers. From the doctrinarian point of view, DP is much closer to SDP than to NLP. The leavings of Mr. Roman and Mr. Basescu didnât occur due to any doctrinarian divergences between them and the ones that remained, but to some personal interests. Since SDP is in trouble, and Mr. Basescu proved to be a skilful demolisher, it would be normal for the politician he is today (chief of the state, Prime Minister, general mayor of Bucharest and DPâs president) to force a take over of the SDP. This way, the left-oriented poll would logically strengthen.
Who could the NLP build the right-oriented poll with? Mr. Ciuhandu rose a hand, but, being part of the political power, the liberals didnât see him. This is because the NPCDP (National Peasant Christian Democratic Party), due to some people like Diaconescu, Galbeni, Lupu and Ciorbea, is in the same place where the NLP were when Mr. Campeanu led them. Then there will be some people saying that NLP and NPP were not only historical parties of Romania, but historical adversaries as well. It is true, but they had a common enemy, that also got them out of the political scenery moving them into prisons - RCP, the legitimate and spiritual father of the frisky FNS/SDPR and DP.
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There will be many parties that, wishing to have the power impossible to get as a result of the elections, will continue to merge. However, this wonât happen according to the doctrinarian appropriations, but, funny, in the virtue of the doctrinarian antithesis. We are yet to see the strength of such political constructions. And their costs too.
Translation: SORIN BALAN