EVZ EDITORIAL: Nastase leaves for exile. To Mizil.

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Mircea Marian: "For 18 years - from 1990 until now - Adrian Nastase was one of the deputies elected in the Bucharest circumscription."

Now, at the first election on which we will have a variety of voting system called "uninominal", the former premier PSD, the darling of the prosecutors from DNA, was rushed to submit his candidate file in Prahova. The college seems to be cut especially for Nastase, is composed of several commons of PSD and a periphery of the interesting city of Mizil.

What led the PSD leader to leave the capital and the asphalt to go gather votes on the dusty roads of the village Colgeag? The uninominal vote is, however, a trick. The redeployment will work in 2008 also, so that Nastase is not obliged to get the first place. The new electoral law allows a candidate who is on the third position, after the number of votes obtained, to be declared winner by redistributing votes.

Adrian Nastase, however, fled Bucharest because in this city the electorate perceives him as the most corrupt politician in Romania. According to sociological studies, the Capital is one of very few places in Romania in which voters are still sensitive to allegations of corruption. Instead, the communes of Prahova, where people do not really read newspapers and watch only the television led by Alexandru Sassu, the former PM still has, perhaps, a shadow of credibility. People there are indifferent to the disputes caused by the abstract work of the prosecutors from DNA. Further, far from vigilent eye of the center media, PSD can use established methods to ensure the vote of the villagers: small bags with gifts, rice, flour or oil.

However, I would say, perhaps with a little too much optimism, that Nastase's escape to Mizil is the first major victory of the fight with corruption. The man has simply fled the capital, because he knew that here is likely to get small a number of votes. His political opponents would not only have to organise small trips to Nastase's villa in Zambaccian and read the electorate from the notice of DNA - and how the PSD leader has built a swimming pool at the floor and a copper bunker in the basement. Where could the poor victim of the prosecutors stired by the dictator Basescu apply? Maybe in Ferentari, Vanghelie's fief, but I think that there would have to wear a tough battle with Becali's people, who gave electricity to the entire neighbourhood. It is not that Nastase will not return to parliament, but about the political defeat of former prime minister. What word will he have in his party this leader of PSD if, in college in which he could have been elected, will take only fourth place, a result of the fact that he would have collected a poor number of votes?

I believe that auto-exile of the former PSD Prime Minister is, for him, it the beginning of the end. Gradually, the generations from PSD will change, people will come who are not related to governance between 2001 and 2004 and it will not need the balast represented by a politician marked by allegations of corruption. The slowing down of the processes will strengthen suspicions. If in four years Nastase doesn't get a clear verdict from the judges, Mizil will be the last stop before the famous "trash bin of history".