Mircea Marian: "Oana Zăvoranu (PRM) will represent the image of the future parliament better than Săftoiu, Voinescu or Avramescu."
I am quite convinced that, if PRM pass the five percent barrier, Oana Zăvoranu will represent the image of the future parliament much better than Adriana Săftoiu, Sever Voinescu or Catalin Avramescu.
What all these fine political analysts do not realize is that the legislative has turned into a dead end. The uninominal elections - let's accept, of convenience, this name - will worsen the situation, because the press will cover almost exclusively the manele singers, starlets and footballers who will candidate and, eventually, will be elected. The moment of truth will be the day when the future parliament will begin work and all the cameras will focus on "Querida", ignoring characters like Săftoiu, Avramescu and Voinescu.
The run after the sensational and audience of media is, in my opinion, a natural thing. Guilty of the fact that among deputies and senators are the most unsympathized characters from Romania are the politicians who have turned the parliament into an annex of the executive and into a voting machine. The fact that the legislative has become a shield for statesmen suspected of corruption was just the cherry on the cake.
What prevents the deputies and senators to wake up to life the institution which they represent? To organize, for example, after the English model, regular sessions of interpretations with the Prime Minister. Or, whenever a situation of crisis occurs, to call the responsible ministers at hearings in committees or eventually in Parliament. PNL promised in 2005 that Prime Minister Tariceanu will present himself to the parliament periodically, but after the first two years of his mandate, he has forgotten about this commitment. The problem is that the majority of parliamentarians - in opposition or to power - are acting, actually, as lobby makers.
It is truly a spectacle to follow the crowd deputies and senators who hang themselves to a minister when he bothers to show himself at the Parliament Palace. With the humility of the beggar who demands you money for hospital, all are gathering to whisper in his ear: "Please ... could you help us ...". In these circumstances, none of them are likely to be hard on the government - the one who controls the budgetary resources. I do not realize why this would change after the elections from 2008, this mechanism. The division of colleges was made so that no political character should have doubts. Maybe if you believe in the future legislative, among the about 460 of the elected will lose themselves two, three intellectuals, they will rchange the political world? And if these people will be able to trouble the peace, will the party not intervene over them, to bring them to order?
Therefore, I believe Oana Zăvoranu deserves an armchair of deputy or senator. Because, in lack of anything else, we have at least the right for the parliament to give us a bit of spectacle and soap opera.
PS: I regret that, instead of my picture, I can't illustrate this article with a picture of Oana Zăvoranu and possibly with a piece from her album, entitled "Better than ever."
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