If Adrian Veștea manages to get Parliiament approval, his cabinet would be:
- A government pulled out of a hat, a government dependent on the support of extremists, a government led by a prime minister who betrayed his party and thus the party electorate. And if he betrayed at this level, it is clear that Veștea can continue to betray when he has the levers of power at his disposal.
- The government would be led in reality not by Veștea, not even by Nicușor Dan, but by the PSD; but in a cunning manner, with little responsibility and a massive potential to leech off benefits, surreptitiously. .
- Finally, the Veștea Government would also be a government endorsed by a president who behaved undemocratically with the National Liberal Party, who acted non-transparently during the formation of the government and acted with rare hypocrisy – willing to accept extremists support after having drawn a red line by publicly excluding any support for them and from publicly declaring that the new cabinet was to be purely pro-Western.
As demonstrated by the developments on Tuesday, and more so on Wednesday, an eventual Veștea Government comes from a disgraceful compromise.
With such a government, the president will drown every day in hypocrisy in his relationship with fellow citizens, in inefficient relations with other parties, in ridicule and a deep crisis of confidence with foreign partners.
The head of state will have little control over the government.
From the start, President Dan will have debts and the price of paying them will be his seat in the Cotroceni palace.
In the feeble attempt to form a weak and compromised government, Nicușor Dan sacrificed absolutely everything that the civic activist and politician Nicușor Dan had represented and more.
During the formation of the Veștea Government, President Dan remained defiantly silenced although the public interventions of the designated prime minister needed the president to break his defiant silence.
Since he was nominated on June 14, Adrian Veștea has given quite a lot away from his discussions with the president away apparently with no care in the world.
His statements caused legitimate doubts about the honesty of the head of state and the reason he initially nominated Eugen Tomac followed by Adrian Veștea.
The public statements of the Prime Minister-designate raised doubts and disturbing concern about the endorsement given by Nicușor Dan to extremists in Parliament, including (but, perhaps, especially) AUR parliamentarians.
Otherwise, why would the prime minister-designate say he is not “bothered by the fact that AUR parliamentarians will vote for him out of patriotism”, and on the other hand claim he is always in constant contact with the president?
If you corroborate Adrian Veștea’s statements, it’s safe to say that Nicușor Dan agreed to the violation of his own red line on the AUR issue. Of course, you could go even further with this, suspecting that Nicușor Dan he was merely passive, but actively accepted or at least encouraged this.
After all, for at least a month and a half, Nicușor Dan has shown that he is capable of anything. So why wouldn’t he do that, since his plans came to nothing, he’s on the brink of despair and is improvising madly?
But let’s say that the president is not as irresponsible as Veștea’s words would suggest. And that Nicușor Dan remains firm on the issue of zero votes from AUR. In this scenario, perhaps Veștea only speaks for himself, and the president told him that he did not agree with the maneuver. But if this were the case, why didn’t Nicușor Dan publicly clarify his position? And why doesn’t he publicly announce that, under such conditions, he no longer recognizes Veștea’s designation?
Of course, there is another scenario: instead of suspecting Nicușor Dan of playing poorly, we can suspect Adrian Veștea of lying: that he doesn’t actually talk much with the president, and the president isn’t aware of everything that Veștea is doing these days, along the lines of extremists, guided by the PSD, accompanied by the PSD “mediator” Adrian Neacșu. So why is he star’s boss defiantly silent? Why doesn’t he distance himself and restate his red lines?
Nicușor Dan seems to find comfort in silence because he finds comfort in the total lack of transparency.
The Veștea Government if it is invested will be an obscure government – not only because of the Prime Minister-designate, nor its puppeteer (PSD), but especially because of the failed “mediator”, Nicușor Dan.
