- “What better proof is the fact that, when Parliament voted for the Adrian Veștea Government, the AUR MPs walked out. That action indirectly led to Ilie Bolojan remaining in office. There isn’t better proof” – Sorin Grindeanu said on Monday on Digi24.
When the PSD leader states that the PNL leader remained in government thanks to AUR, the value of Sorin Grindeanu’s words is identical to the value of Vladimir Putin’s words when the Russian leader declares that:
- Russia did not attack Ukraine
- Russia does not target civilians in Ukraine
- Russia has committed no war crimes in Ukraine
- Russia is a victim in this war
- This war is not a war, but a simple special military operation
- Russia wants peace
- Russia is a democracy, and Russians live in freedom
- There is genuine opposition in Russia
The list could go on, because the Kremlin dictator doesn’t hold back from spreading fake news.
Sorin Grindeanu, however, given the crazy temperatures this summer, could be suspected of not being logical and unable to relate to facts. Or maybe he is close to a nervous breakdown, or with all the pressures he is subjected to within the party. I would opt for the second option.
Because, at least now, more than two months after the no-confidence motion, his colleagues may have understood that leaving the government was a poor move and they got burned. Because they, the PSD, not longer have their hands on the levers of power, while their party president, is doing just fine, as the speaker of the Chamber of Deputies.
Humanly speaking, the situation must be very frustrating for Sorin Grindeanu’s colleagues, because the PSD leader bears the greatest responsibility for the stupidity committed by the party and is the only member who did not lose his position. The rest, on the other hand, lost massively, either by losing the positions they held in the village apparatus, or by seeing people they had planted there disappear from those functions.
It is therefore to be suspected that only an infernal pressure from within the PSD pushed Sorin Grindeanu to resort to this reasoning of accusing Ilie Bolojan of being prime minister with the help of the AUR.
This came after:
- PSD and AUR joined together to write the motion of no-confidence
- PSD sought votes from AUR to invest the Veștea Government.
- PSD has recently passed several bills together with AUR (possibly on agreements related to the motion)
- When former PSD leader Marcel Ciolacu ran for president, votes from the PSD were given to George Simion, the AUR leader in order to ensure a comfortable second round for the then leader of the PSD. This was revealed at the time and repeated even recently by some PSD members
Moreover, bringing into question an imaginary parliamentary support of AUR for Ilie Bolojan to remain in the position of Prime Minister, at the same time as Grindeanu’s renewal of his appreciations of Nicușor Dan represents an additional abuse of common sense (including political common sense).
Because President Dan who was recently praised by Grindeanu and PSD, seems to have abdicated himself from the great self-imposed red line, the one related to not using AUR’s support for a new government.
- This was visible during the attempted investiture of the Veștea Government, when the head of state did not seem to have a problem with the fact that Veștea bowed to George Simion, the PSD being no stranger to the business.
- It was visible even more recently, when the head of state dryly declared that he was only interested in finding 233 parliamentarians to vote for a new government, regardless of where they come from and who those 233 would be (so including from the AUR).
In other words, Grindeanu finds himself reproaching Bolojan for something that Bolojan did not do, but which the PSD tried to do. And at the same time, Grindeanu reproaches Bolojan for something that Bolojan did not do and does not want to do, but at the same time something that President Nicușor Dan would no longer mind seeing accomplished, in case, of course, someone would be able to do it.
If the PSD leader insists on this logic that makes a mockery of facts, it can’t be ruled out that tomorrow we will hear him claiming that the PSD did not even bring down the Bolojan Government in a no-confidence vote.
Since Grindeanu has the nerve to claim that Bolojan is prime minister with the AUR votes, what would stop Grindeanu coming out with something just as outrageous?
After all, Putin says that he is a victim, not an aggressor.
The pressure on Grindeanu from PSD members unhappy with the fallout from the PSD-AUR no-confidence motion is likely to get worse, not better.
