IOANA LUPEA: "The president's spoilt child is the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL)."
It ,the party, hasn't been publicly reprimanded. The natural daughter, Elena Basescu, yes. At the centenary of the Writers Union, Traian Basescu classified her, without parently mercy, in the "Marian Vanghelie" category for politicians for the famous and largely discussed "succesuri". PDL hasn't received a slap like this from Traian Basescu, but it could take it, painfully, from the voters. It entered the electoral campaign like a spoiled child, with a diamond ring, country house and jeep, expecting an easy victory. Just because it is Basescu's party and it's rightfully owned. Only that the protector has broken his aura and damaged his electoral account with misogynist and racist "sweet talks" like "little bird" and "filthy gypsy". It was PDL's turn to prove, through it's own force, that it it what it pretends to be: a large, responsible party and a promoter of the political class reform. But the democratic-liberal phalanx of the Cotroceni Palace didn't surpass its condition of transition party.
PDL should make a Bible from the fable "The frog and the ox". It's not enough to want, to be ambitious, to bloat and stretch in order to become "from a small, a large animal". A strong party, responsible, promoter of the political class reform would have selected its candidates for the local elections soon, and not any candidates, but those who match the society's standards of integrity. PDL did exactly the opposite: the candidates were selected at the last moment, many of them being recruited from their neighbors, especially from PSD, a very criticized party for bad habits like corrupt payments, interests conflicts or sevice abuses. The coalition for a Clean Parliament tracked down nine stained PDL candidates (nine at least!). A second layer of candidates is formed by vice-mayors and actual councilors, who did nothing noticeable in four years of term. Like Cezar Ionescu and Radu Silaghi from sectors 2 and 4 from Bucharest, who are exploiting electorally the voters wishes to live like their neighbours from Liviu Negoita's sector. Meaning, more civilized.
The pro-presidential party is discovering with surprise that it has to fight and can even lose the elections. At least in the Capital, where candidate Vasile Blaga is not able to calibrate his speach: at testing the political message, Sorin Oprescu is better, and in administration, Ludovic Orban seems more capable in the field. This, after he imagined, probably, that his PDL membership and the interiors minister seat will be sufficient to win the voters. Thrown with arrogance in the electoral competition and completely not prepared for his role of candidate, Vasile Blaga is not perceived as an alternative.
PDL didn't learn anything from the PSD lesson. Not reformed, sufficient, without project, PDL risks to burst from too much bloating, just before the local elections. Exactly like in the fable.
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