Mircea Marian: "Oprescu imagined that the extraordinary things that he has told will be forgotten once the elections are over. He is wrong."
Two years. This is the amount of time that it will take for the certified revolutionary Sorin Oprescu to build the 24 kilometers long highway which will cross the Capital, from the "humps" in Otopeni to the exit towards Giurgiu. Or, at least, that is what he promised.
I'm just one of those who are happy, honestly, that the "independent doctor" has won the elections. Certainly we won't be bored by "his different fighting activities and humanism" - to quote from his request through which Oprescu was claiming his right to a revolutionary certificate. At the end of his first term, we will travel with the monorail on Splaiul Dâmboviţei, we will feed the deers from the future park near Unirii boulevard, and the poor will eat stakes at the new social canteens. In front of the mayoralty, will be two bowls with white and black balls, so that the inhabitants of Bucharest would vote if they like or not their general mayor. The people will be periodically called at the Large Palace Hall because, like the Athenians from the Greece of Pericles, to take, through vote, decisions on the Capital's fate. The rich will pay a solidarity tax of 10 euro (per month, day or year, we don't really know) to feel on their own skins that Bucharest is managed, at last, by a "man of the left".
This character imagined that the extraordinary things that he has told will be forgotten once the elections are over. He is wrong. You can't erase from your memory the fantasies with which he dazzled us in the last 45 days.
In fact, we are all imagining what will happen: Oprescu will not fulfill any of the series of promises launched just for getting the publics attention. In a few months he will start pointing his finger towards his political rivals from the general council, even though, immediately after he won the elections, he said that he will not make up such excuses.He will use all kinds of diversions: the media didn't understood the highway story well, let's make a study first, maybe a referendum etc.
Those who will lead the city will be the PSD general councilors, carefully selected by Marian Vanghelie, and the groups of interest behind them. The general mayor will have nothing else to do than to turn his back to the irregularities from the general council. In exchange, PSD, PC and PNL will grant him a major image campaign, including media coverage at the public television and at Dan Voiculescu's antennas. It's important for Oprescu to maintain his popularity for another year, so that, in 2009, to be launched towards Cotroceni Palace.
The top matter will be the symbiosis between the new mayor and the long criticised Videanu's edges. Besides all the legends of the former general mayor, the technical problem is that it's impossible to change the asphalt without replacing the edges also, if they are made of concrete. I am curious if the professional revolutionary Sorin Oprescu will find another way and, in his term, not one single edge will be bought. Or he will prefer that in the next four years he will not restore any road in Bucharest. It would be a typical solution for this resourceful inhabitant of Bucharest.
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