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| POLITICAL SUMMER SCHOOLS ON THE ROMANIAN SCENE 01/09/2008 |
| (2008-09-01) |
| Last updated: 2008-09-02 15:10 EET |
Given that parliamentary and presidential elections will be held separately and that an engine to pull the party forward is extremely necessary, at the week-end leaders of several political parties used their parties’ summer schools, most of them organised on the Romanian Black Sea Coast, as an opportunity to announce their candidacy for the position of prime minister.
Under the heading “Party with perspectives. Looking for a Prime Minister”, the daily EVENIMENTUL ZILEI recalls that “Ion Iliescu is no longer running in the elections, Traian Basescu keeps a suspect distance from his favourite party, and the Liberals have never had a strong leader. There is no party to boast the much needed 460-strong candidates - one candidate for each constituency - to mobilise the electorate at a local level. The only solution to attract voters is to find a strong candidate for the position of prime minister”.
In this context, Liberal Calin Popescu Tariceanu has expressed his wish to run for a new 4 year mandate, and Social-Democrat president Mircea Geoana has announced his wish to become the new leader of a government formed by the Social Democratic Party-Conservative Party alliance, meant “to take Romania forward, to the place where it belongs to.“ Another leader who wants to hold the position of prime minister is Theodor Stolojan, a member of the Liberal Democratic Party, who was Romania’s prime minister in the early 1990s.
The daily EVENIMENTUL ZILEI says that “two decades after the Romanian revolution, it would be better to have a versatile, clever politician than a technocrat, skilful and serious as he might be,” whereas, quote, “the lack of ability, tact and political skills shown by Theodor Stolojan raises major questions.” Unquote. The daily ROMANIA LIBERA is sceptical about the political parties’ electoral offers.
The aforementioned daily writes, quote: ”Romania continues to be the country where politics evolves around the same boring and useless rhetoric, whose key point is to prove that all the other political players are weaker, less prepared or ill-intended. This is pretty much what we’ll hear in the following three months: words depleted of a real meaning, uttered by people who have already proved their incompetence in the past.
Through their voices, parties will beg for our votes, playing everything on one card: our imperfect memory. Their discourse sounds like this: Just forget we’ve been in power at least once and we did almost nothing to your benefit! Forget that we’ve stolen, and keep in mind that if you give your vote to the others, they might steal even more!” unquote.
A similar remark is made by the daily COTIDIANUL, which headlines, quote ”The National Liberal Party and the Liberal Democratic Party have sent each other view-cards with insulting messages from the seaside. The champions of disparagement are incumbent Prime Minister Tariceanu and the vice-president of the National Liberal Party, Ludovic Orban.” Tariceanu described the Liberal Democratic Party, which also includes a splinter group from the National Liberal Party, as a party with no ideology, a motley crew whose political career will be short-lived.
In his turn, Orban ridiculed Stolojan’s announcement to run in the election. The Liberal Democrats were quick to respond, with secretary general Vasile Blaga predicting that the National Liberal Party will fall apart after the parliamentary elections. According to Blaga, quote, ”What keeps them close together is their rush for a piece of the pie. They have always been and continue to be a multitude of groups of interest, which will split up.”
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