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| Emil Boc – The Old and New Leader of the Liberal Democratic Party 16/05/2011 |
| (2011-05-16) |
| Last updated: 2011-05-17 13:29 EET |
Organized in perfect detail to avoid any surprises, the National Convention of the Liberal Democratic Party – the largest party in the Romanian governing coalition – had a predictable ending. The current PM Emil Boc, the favorite of President Traian Basescu, was re-elected as chief of the Liberal Democrats. The party leadership also includes many other people who are close to President Basescu.
Emil Boc obtained a landslide victory against the former interior minister, Vasile Blaga, and with this Traian Basescu secured a victory over the autonomist faction in the Liberal Democratic Party that wants to break away from the President’s patronage. The Liberal Democratic Convention pointed out that the party has not yet produced another political personality in Traian Basescu’s image, therefore its political and electoral dependence on Basescu is much stronger than any anti-Basescu tendencies.
On the other hand, the Convention failed to deal with the organizational flaws noted by Vasile Blaga or tackle the problems that the party has with its image. Public perception of the party is tarnished by an image that it is riddled with cronyism, administrative hesitancy and an absence of initiatives able to take the country out of a protracted economic crisis. Opinion polls suggest the party would take a maximum of just 20% of the vote, meaning the Liberal Democratic Party risks losing the local and parliamentary elections next year to the grand opposition coalition - the Social Liberal Union.
Traian Basescu, the de facto winner in the Liberal Democratic Convention, wants to prevent this from happening, and the most inspired move would be the replacement of Emil Boc as PM with a technocrat, analysts say. But this would require careful preparation, so as not to shake the ever more fragile governing coalition at parliamentary level. The advantage of such a move would be that Emil Boc could focus on the party, trying to accomplish the reforms demanded by the President.
Also, a technocrat prime minister would be the only person capable of taking the tough measures the IMF requested from the Romanian government, such as the restructuring of loss-making state-owned companies, without being concerned with possible consequences at political level. But a too independent prime minister, immune to the insatiable hunger for financial resources evinced by Liberal Democratic mayors, would risk becoming unwanted by the party leadership.
In an interview to the daily paper EVENIMENTUL ZILEI, the former political advisor to President Basescu, Sebastian Lazaroiu, claims that reason should urge Boc to step down and let a technocrat lead the government. The analyst believes that it will take a technocrat prime minister with the president’s support to restructure state-owned companies.
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