Vanghelie’s SDP

An extremely significant moment in the life and activity of the SDP led by Mircea Geoana has passed as a watch in the night.

On Friday, the 20th of October 2006, Marian Vanghelie, the SDP (the Social Democratic Party) Bucharest Executive President, has called the Organization’s Executive Bureau to discuss the possible candidacy of Sorin Oprescu for the party president. The fact that Marian Vanghelie did this is the first of many strange events at SDP. As far as we know, the Organization’s President is the only one to call a session of the Executive Bureau. The second strange thing is the fact that Sorin Oprescu was abroad when this happened. He was present at the session on Friday by pure accident. He got back into the country because he found out about the session called by his deputy. The third strange thing is the attitude of the Bureau’s members. There wasn’t one to ask themselves about the reason for which they should attend a session called by Marian Vanghelie without the President’s knowledge.

These strange things could be explained by facts in a reality held apart from the eyes of the public opinion in the well-known SDP style, very much related to the secrecy specific to the Romanian Communist Party.

Lately, Sorin Oprescu has started to show interest in the party’s presidency. It caused a great restlessness to Mircea Geoana, who knows that he will remain the party’s President as long as there will not be an important competitor. Sorin Oprescu is such a competitor. Ion Iliescu is held apart by the harassments from the Military Prosecutor’s Office. Adrian Nastase still has some unfinished business with NAD (the National Anti-corruption Directorate). Both Ion Iliescu and Adrian Nastase are victims of the abuses of the institutions controlled by Traian Basescu. SDP is to support Traian Basescu during the Presidential elections. It will probably propose a poor competitor who shouldn’t trouble the present President. In exchange, the President is doing all he can to take all the real competitors for Mircea Geoan out of SDP. Traian Basescu would support Mircea Geoana even is it weren’t for this bargain. With a tin-foiled leader under the control of the group in Cluj, SDP is highly probable to suffer a fall in the polls to the level of an ordinary pocket party. Since the main Opposition party is just a name on a sheet of paper, Traian Basescu and his party will rule Romania for a long period of time.

Of all the present SDP leaders, Sorin Oprescu is immune to the abuses of the force institutions of the ascending presidential dictatorship system. Even if it were for him to have a fabricated file, Sorin Oprescu has a very good image in the public opinion and it wouldn’t affect him too much.

Sorin Oprescu can only be blocked by the tricks of the Organization in Bucharest. This organization is in the hands of Marian Vanghelie. Sorin Oprescu knows this. He knows it because he finished Dan Ioan Popescu only with the help of Marian Vanghelie.

This is what explains the fourth strange thing regarding the session of the SDP Bucharest Organization Executive Bureau. At the end of the session, Sorin Oprescu said it is still premature for him to take a final decision as far as the candidacy is concerned. After this, he shakes hands with Marian Vanghelie in front of the press, who expected something else from the SDP Bucharest President.

Instead of bringing Marian Vanghelie to his level, Sorin Oprescu is fawning on the Mayor from the 5th District.

We understand the fact that Mircea Geoana fell back on Marian Vanghelie in order to remain the SDP President. Mircea Geoana has become the SDP President and is still the President only thanks to this kind of maneuvers. During the past one-year-and-a-half, he wasted his energy while running from one SDP group to another.
We don’t understand Sorin Oprescu.
Well, actually, we do.
He is not Sorin Oprescu anymore, he is a brave SDP member.