Nicușor Dan has committed the original sin of Roman’s first post-communist president, Ion Iliescu
- Traitors from the National Liberal Party called for help both for the formation of the government, and for it to be voted in Parliament.
- Support from Victor Ponta
- Support from non-AUR extremists
- Begging for votes from AUR extremists
- Minister for Development, (from ex-PM Marcel Ciolacu)
- A straw prime minister, with a cabinet negotiated by the PSD and a parliamentary majority arranged by the PSD.
- Government program shaped by Ilie Bolojan program, invalidated by the no-confidence motion, but at the same time also wrapped in contradictory messages regarding the spending regime really envisaged by the new cabinet.
- Finally, the prime minister-designate early Sunday morning at an hour whenpeople were hardly out of bed fast forwarded his government and much later presented it as people were getting ready to go to bed.
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This is the “Honest Romania 2.0″ project endorsed by President Nicușor Dan. And this comes at the end of a one and a half month serious political crisis which Nicușor Dan had had the duty to prevent, but which it’s now clear that the president had no personal interest in nipping it in the bud.
The speed with which Nicușor Dan has disappointed his fans as president is both impressive and unprecedented.
But the depths of the lies that Nicușor Dan used to obtain the six million votes that brought him to Cotroceni Palace are truly dizzying. They are worthy of what former President Ion Iliescu said in January 1990 a month after the revolution when he promised that the National Salvation Front is not and will not be a political party” and will not run for elections.
Just one month and three days after that public promise, Ion Iliescu was doing exactly the opposite. This is how the PSD cancer in post-Decembrist politics began. And, as we can see today, Romania did not manage to get rid of it in almost four decades.
Nicușor Dan, the great civic activist and the great reformist politician, fed the tumor with his own hand.
The Veștea Government is a danger and at the same time a caricature – that is, a government in the image and likeness of the country’s president.
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