Ioana Lupea: "The most calm speech of the president is the most confusing. The targeted effect was to draw attention on the «new Basescu»".
Traian Băsescu is changing the role. The pacifying president takes the place, at least for now, of the player president. Basescu is not anymore the organizer of public executions, he is the man who restores peace. The message from yesterday in the parliament, applied, sober and critical, took by surprise the politicians who dressed themselves with was breastplates. Not many believed that the head of state refrained from nominal attacks. Dismayed and prisoners of reflex response to the strikes, some have not been able calibrate the replies. The most calm speech of the president is the most confusing, just through the contrast with his pugnacious image. This was certainly the desired effect. To draw the attention of voters and political parties on the "new Basescu, closer to the president than the player.
The message from yesterday referred to the future government. And set the platform of negotiating for the formation of the post electoral cabinet: the return of the village, the inefficiency and inequity of the systems of education and health bureaucracy that creates rental men, the waste of resources, the administration's inability to absorb EU funds and that of the judiciary to protect citizens from corruption and crime. Acting against his nature, the head of state deceived the expectations of those who prepared for a brutal involvement in the competition between parties in favor of PDL. The question is not what can Traian Băsescu do for the PDL in the electoral campaign - it has been seen in local elections that his intervention between sides does not help the party - but what can be done for PDL after the elections. The answer is to everyone's reach: to find it a partner in the predictable case that it does not win the majority. By the neutrality towards the political parties through exclusive reference to "the new objectives of democratic governance" - rated as realistic by all parties except PNL - Traian Băsescu is trying to remove himself as a hindrance from the way of PDL to a coalition government. Perversely, Basescu has removed PDL from isolation and isolated PNL with his exaggerated optimism.
Traian Băsescu aims beyond the elections in November. He is reinventing himself for the poll of the next year that concerns him personally. In this key should be interpreted the ad that he will work with any government which meets the challenges of Romania and not the interests of oligarchies. The politician who won only through war is playing now, at the request of the public, the book of peace. Basescu has already tempered the late excesses, trying to get better in the role of president as, the electorate wants him at this stage. I mean a president who does not argue all day with the government, who does not blame people, groups and institutions in vane, a guarantor of stability, predictability and social justice.
Traian Băsescu has a single enemy in this rebranding campaign, himself.
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