- The political fights between the Presidential Administration and AUR, and AUR and PSD, in order to get support for the investiture of the Veștea Government, is symptomatic.
- It is symptomatic of the non-transparent and – which has been proven in time – and the impractical methods chosen by Nicușor Dan to install a new government.
- It is symptomatic of the credibility deficit that the PSD ended up with after brutally violating the coalition agreement, culminating in the breakup of the coalition itself, on May 5.
- It is also symptomatic of lowering of the tome of the political dialogue, given the fact that, in recent days, we are witnessing an interesting offside game, made by AUR, by revealing a series of meetings and discussions, which seems to put both the Presidency and the PSD on the defensive. In fact, from these two directions – via Eugen Tomac and Sorin Grindeanu – you feel a great embarrassment towards what George Simion and Mohammad Murad are divulging. The situation is really comical: against the background of so many details that have appeared in public, everyone is forced to admit that the meetings and discussions have existed, but at the same time no one assumes the initiation of the contact/contacts. Public opinion is thus treated with dangerous contempt, since a meeting can only take place on someone’s initiative. But, probably, in order to recognize this, it will take some time..
It remains unclear, however, why prisoners still insist on hiding behind masks, risking total compromise, since an entire country has so far seen pretty much everything they need to see:
- That the PSD demolished the Bolojan Government together with AUR, and at the time of the joint announcement on the motion, made by the two parties, PSD member Marian Neacșu also gave a telling clue. Asked if the draft motion is also the premise of a future collaboration, Neacșu said that “any road begins with the first step”.
- That then, in the days when superhuman efforts were made to invest the Veștea Government, the PSD was actually one of the two engines (the other being Cotroceni presidential palace). In the “petitions” at the parliamentary groups, Adrian Veștea was accompanied by Adrian Neacșu himself. In other words, the PSD was aware in detail of everything that was happening inside Veștea’s scheme to get installed at Victoria Palace, the government headquarters. As internal discussions also contained inevitable contacts with AUR (because, otherwise, where would there be enough votes?), it is logical that PSD had got its hands dirty in this dimension as well. Then, Adrian Veștea, according to his own words, had been given assurances from Cotroceni that there would be over 233 votes. As Nicușor Dan himself was not irritated by the fact that Veștea was openly seeking the support of AUR and how, after the failure of the Veștea variant, Nicușor Dan admitted that he was only interested in finding votes from anywhere for a new government, the current lack of ownership of Cotroceni on the subject of initiating at least some of the contacts with AUR or with its representatives becomes both bizarre and unhealthy.
- Finally, public opinion has already seen what was essential to see: that both the Presidency and the PSD have violated their initial red lines regarding the role of AUR in supporting the installation of a new government. Now, the fact that no one admits that they made the first phone call is likely to aggravate the problem, not to remove it.
Following this masked ball, with modest dancers and masks that disfigure the faces rather than hide them, the landscape is becoming more and more grotesque.
- No one trusts the PSD anymore on principle, after the PSD betrayed a coalition that it was part of. And the parable is simple: just as the Liberals and the USR-were in the same pan as the PSD, others will also be in the same pan.
- Neither Sorin Grindeanu nor Nicușor Dan can trust AUR anymore, given the eagerness with which this party divulges in-house secrets.
- No one can trust Nicușor Dan anymore: PNL-USR, because of the game played by the president before and after the no-confidence vote. PNL, once again, also because of the presidential attempt to break the party; PSD, because the president failed to demolish the PNL-Bolojan and is not even able to steer the boat properly; and AUR, as Nicușor Dan gives contradictory messages – sometimes considering them good for supporting a government, sometimes excluding them from the official picture, on the grounds that they are too extremist Moreover, AUR now accuses the president of trying to break up the party by co-opting a nucleus built around Mohammad Murad (a somewhat soft version of the PNL-Bolojan break-up attempt).
Sorin Grindeanu and Nicușor Dan compromised themselves fairly quickly and thoroughly and in vain through their (poorly disguised) complicity with AUR.
In the eyes of public opinion, both have lost so much, that they wouldn’t lose much if they started being honest what happened and how it started, and how their relationship with AUR evolved.
But at least they would become, at the last minute, a little more dignified. And if something like this leaves them cold from a personal point of view, at least they should do it for the sake of the positions of public dignity they hold.
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