Mircea Marian: "How desperate are the people from PDL by the loss of the Capital Mayoralty if they ended up to appeal to such perverse combinations?"
To offer the vice-mayor position to a land bargain maker, investigated by DNA, who walks with a suitcase full of millions euro on him, is a defiance that will cost dearly Traian Basescu's men at the next parliamentary elections.
In the opposite camp, the PSD and PNL leaders are playing, with success, the piece of the non-political men interested only in the "best administration" of the city. "We are not making alliances, we are voting good projects for Bucharest" is the line of the men behind Oprescu. Nobody knows what these projects are, but it sounds good and probably the people believes him, like it believed in the "independent candidate".
And what is PDL's answer to this tactic? It makes a scheme with Gigi Becali, without no explanation other than that together they want to hold the two vice-mayor positions. One of the functions will be granted to Razvan Murgeanu, who confessed, for BBC, his little games with the former Securitatea. After that, the man proved that he kept his good habits and said that he secretly recorded Elena Basescu's counter-candidate to the general secretary position of PDL's youth organization. The biography of the potential PNG vice-mayor, Robert Ionescu, is almost as interesting: deputy director for an ONG called the Institute for Studies and Researches of Terrorism. In the electoral campaign, he was noticed when he complained that a car of the secret service of the Ministry of Interiors ran over his foot. Briefly, the man is perfectly qualified to administrate a city of over two millions inhabitants.
PDL could hardly help the "independent" mayor Oprescu in a better way. He could now pose as victim of an alliance, which will block all his projects in the Bucharest General Council.
Also, when the personal interests will call for it, I am convinced that the people from PNG, plus the doubtful people who were brought by PDL in the council, like Vasile Gherasim, will vote like PSD and PNL.
It's not surprising that just over 10% of the inhabitants of this city voted with PDL. The over two thirds preffered not to participate at the elections. Bucharest is a place where words like ethics or moral haven't lost their meaning, even when they are associated with politics. You can't pledge your support for the DNA chief, Daniel Morar, and then to ally yourself with a redneck and primitive politician, who is making the prosecutors "rags","trashes" and "servants" who are acting after Hungarian commands. Who can contradict now those who sustain that PDL doesn't want anything else than to continue to chew the Capital Mayoralty's bone.
I know that this city deserves more than Oprescu, the king of the Primaverii slums, the price of the suspended highways and the shepherd of the deers that graze near the Mall. But I think that PDL fully deserved the elector's kick in the softer part of the body.
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