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| Parades on Romania’s National Day 02/12/2010 |
| (2010-12-02) |
| Last updated: 2010-12-03 13:28 EET |
The bad weather on December 1st also affected the traditional military parade organized each year in Bucharest on the national day. There were far fewer people attending the parades, and the planes and helicopters that were supposed to fly over the capital remained grounded, meaning the parade was exclusively terrestrial. The Romanian President, Traian Basescu, missed the events devoted to the national day as he was in Astana to represent Romania at the OSCE summit.
The programme of indoor shows remained unchanged and wreathes were laid at the grave of the unknown solider, and the graves of soldiers and politicians who, at the end of WW I, on December 1st 1918, made the union of Romania possible. Then, in Alba Iulia (in central Romania) the representatives of the Romanians, who formed a majority in the provinces of Transylvania, Banat, Crisana and Maramures, provinces that were part of the Austrian-Hungarian empire, decided upon their union with the kingdom of Romania.
The moment in Alba Iulia had been preceded by the union of Bessarabia (in the east) with Romania in March of the same year, while in November it was Bucovina’s turn to unite with Romania. Until then the two Romanian provinces had been under the rule of the Tsarist and Habsburg empires. Now, 92 years on after the “astral moment of Greater Romania” the daily GANDUL writes about the “biggest failure in organizing the National Day”.
The daily GANDUL adds, quote, “December 1st 2010 showed a Romania in chaos, with amateurs at the wheel and a broken helm, a worryingly drifting Romania. An absent president and a PM who is not respected by anyone, sent to represent the state authority at the parades only to be the target of the people’s discontent and booing”.
“A bleak day in Romania’s life” writes the daily EVENIMENTUL ZILEI about what should have been an exuberant celebration. Although a supporter of the ruling power, the newspaper couldn’t fail to write that, quote: “PM Emil Boc was in the spotlight: he was saluted by the Guard of Honor and booed by a number of frozen Romanians.”
Another Romanian daily newspaper, ROMANIA LIBERA, avoided political commentary and referred to the fighting equipment, regretting that, quote, “the Army do not surprise anyone”. While in Beijing, Moscow and Paris parades on national day displayed an overwhelming arsenal of state-of-the-art military equipment, in Bucharest “2010 was another year of disappointment in terms of military equipment”, the daily concludes.
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