IOANA LUPEA: "The Capital's City Hall elections represent an endurance test for the Bucharest voters in front of the populist seduction."
More than a competition between candidates, parties or projects, the ballot in June is a clash between soul and reason, and more prosaic, a battle between populists and administrators. Between those who haven't got projects and those who have some administrating skills, and not for the voters carnying with disgusting bows. The triumph will be decided by those who will vote.
In the populists corner we have Sorin Oprescu (self-proclaimed independent), and in the opposite one - Vasile Blaga (PDL), Ludovic Orban (PNL) and Cristian Diaconescu (PSD). In the first category we can include sector's candidates like Cristian Popescu-Piedone (PC), for sector four, that dupes electors with clichés like "the mayor's office is in the streets" and other similar luring promises, but empty in content. Between the extremes, Cozmin Gusa. The PIN candidate adopted the populist chorus of the anti-system candidate, but he is capable to make the difference between gathering and scattering. Gusa asserts, with real chances, a breach.
Sorin Oprescu is the only candidate for Bucharest's leadership that hasn't presented a project, not even a little idea. The salvation from the boring bussines of projects and plans presentations was taken last week from Iosif Boda, that at Realitatea TV released the following idea: all candidates will come with the same solutions, because there are no others for Bucharest. Most probably, Sorin Oprescu will not lose himself in details like "traffic management", the main or secondary ring, subterranean or groun level passages. He is convinced that he will win the electors vote only because he is Oprescu, a doctor, independent, anti-system and savior of the Bucharest people. How much will count his past as Ion Iliescu's apprentice and beneficiary of the system that he hasn't blame when he occupied public positions is hard to determin. The voters need to believe, they will stay at their old opinions and reject those that oppose their convinctions. If opinions on Oprescu are mostly good, it will be hars for his rivals to fight them with counter-arguments.
Vasile Blaga, Ludovic Orban and Cristian Diaconescu have prepared projects for this electoral campaign, betting on the fact that the Bucharest inhabitant is fed up with promises and that he will pay more atention to solutions. They could loose this bet. The Bucharest voters is indeed fed up with empty words, but he also doesn't believe that projects, no matter how good they are, will be finished. Sceptics will be probably more tempted to run rather than cast their vote for empty promises. Fact that leads us to the question "who votes". If the conscientious voters that need miracles will present to the ballot, then the administrators have lost the battle.
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