Mircea Marian: "The decision of Sever Voinescu and Catalin Avramescu to enter the parliament on the lists of PDL is disappointing."
Whole years, the two have posed in the posture of neutral and independent analysts. Voinescu was even the host of show at the public television. Now, after the decision to enroll in politics, everyone shall be entitled to say that in the positions of commentators, the two were not doing anything else than to buy their seats of parliamentarians. The speed with which the party has found them colleges in which to apply - in Prahova, a Democrat fief - reinforces the suspicion that they had agreed a long time ago with the leaders of PDL.
It already happened for journalists to change camps. Corina Cretu was a journalist in 1992, before ending up, officially, in the service of Ion Iliescu. In 1996, several employees of "Romania Libera" crossed with arms and luggages to Ciorbea government. A whole series of spokespersons of the executive - Adriana Săftoiu, Gabriela Vrânceanu Firea, Camelia Spătaru or Claudiu Lucaci - have worked in the media.
But the situation is different in 2008 for Voinescu and Avramescu. The two have never accepted the title of journalists, they were floating in the top sphere of the trainers of opinion. People who give lessons on ethics and indicate to broad popular masses, which is the good way. It's disarming when those who assume such a position are throwing themselves on the first parliamentary bone which is given to them. Let's hope that Voinescu and Avramescu will change the disastrous image of the legislative? Let's be serious. Instead, they have not done anything else than interfere in the trough of pigs. And PDL, no matter how much it will hide behind Basescu, is not exactly the most righteous place in the sphere of politics. And here counts only money and relationships. Guys oiled with all the ointments, as Cosmin Guşă and Aurelian Pavelescu, haven't lasted even 12 months. After four years in the parliament, the two naives who are leaving the media to change the parliament will be excluded from the party, or will resign.
Which, honestly, angers me the most is the suspicion that those two are throwing upon all journalists who, in a greater or smaller measure, were more critical with Tariceanu than with Basescu. Basically, you can not say anything about the PM without first to be asked: do you want to become an ambassador, presidential adviser and deputy, as Voinescu and Avramescu? How can I consider the servants of Felix, the former informer of the Securitatea, as "juke-boxes", when the other side they is buying editorialists with posts in the parliament?
For all these reasons, I can not wish success to Sever Voinescu and Catalin Avramescu in their new career. Instead, I want at least one of them to fight in the College of Mizil, with Adrian Nastase. There, in the fief of an obscure Christian Democrat party, where the formation of Roma "Pro-Europe" has obtained more votes than the PNL, the market will decide the value between an intellectual specialized in constitutional studies a dubious and spent politician, as the former PSD Prime Minister.
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