Florian Bichir: "Politics are made on the basis of electoral results and those from Cluj not only have lost the elections, they don't exist!".
One of the best jokes from after the Revolutions was told to me by Floriana Juncan. Tensions in the cabinet of Adrian Nastase. The PM speaks: "The country is in ruin, our government has failed, we don't have any solutions, and in future elections we risk to be humiliated. I am waiting for solutions". Silence, a deep silence. Suddenly, a victorious hand waves, like in the primary grades, above the heads. "Speak Puiule (Ion Puiu Pascu) you're a clever boy, and you're in charge of the army...". "Mister Prime Minister Adrian Nastase, of the government of Adrian Nastase", I have found the solution: start a war with the United States. We stand no chance. We just surrender and spend peacefully our millions in Miami. They will come to rebuild Romania". This is the solution. Hooray! Hand shakes, hot social-democratic tears are blenching out the barons eyes. Mitrea's mustache shakes of happiness, Miki Spaga is dancing a minuet... In a corner, sweaty and deeply concerned, Vasile Dancu sighs while he is making fast calculations: "Mister president of PSD, mister Adrian Nastase! We have a problem. After my calculations, and you know that I am a famous sociologist, s I know what I am doing, we can win the war!".
For years, the social-democrats from Cluj are playing their own card. The self-proclaimed themselves the "Group from Cluj" lika a "Gruppo Apparte" of the social-democrats supporters. They've imposed conditions non-stop, as if they were the entire Transylvania, and Ioan Rus, an Avram Iancu, with roses at his wide belt. The electoral results proved that the so-called Group can be called Coupple, because it's visible through two persons: Rus and Dancu.
Beyond the joke, those from Cluj were the first who gave the signal of reform in PSD, and the "group" is composed of very intelligent people. Schooled boys, smooth, but without charisma, without the power to communicate with the electorate, to fall in both the harming, but the politically necessary populism. Even though they will get upset, it needs to be said, the social-democrats from Cluj could rather organize themselves in a social-democrat research group, and not in a real pole of PSD.
The new project of Vasile Dancu to create a regional party is not a novelty. The regional pride comes in the Romanian politics for a long time now: from Iuliu Maniu's transylvanism and ending with Pantelimon Halipa, who saw in Basarabia, a province of Great Romania, but with its own government or, in the worst case with an apart status.
The idea itself is out of date: in an united Europe to promote regional parties is ridiculous. One is to have autonomy in managing local problems and another is to make an electoral program out if this. Is the social-democracy different in Cluj? How will the electoral message from Dancu: "Only we will give cheaper electric power in Gherla! Vote the tax reduction for the Saxon salami!"?
Honestly, I don't understand the upset of Ioan Rus over Mircea Geoana. Politics are made on the basis of electoral results and those from Cluj not only have lost the elections, they don't exist! The rest are fairy tales! Too bad of the smartening of some from "the group from Cluj". But a Romanian saying says that where is a lot of mind it's also a lot of stupidity!
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