Ioana Lupea: "A free chicken is more valuable than a suspended motorway and a channel Bucharest-Danube-Black Sea below".
The electoral campaign for parliamentary elections takes the proportions of an immense queue for chicken from the time of Ceausescu. Now it is not being offered behind the store, but from an unscripted tent, from the trunk of a car or are delivered directly to the beneficiary voter in a plastic bag with the sign and the name of party candidates. What? Anything that fits in an pocket or in an empty bag. Some politicians reveal, in specially arranged spaces and call with hypocrisy, the payment nature or money for a vote, generosity. The left, right or center, any act of charity met in public every four years is called in the best case advertising.
The electoral offer should be varied, even though voters are not asking for much: food, money, shoes, trips. They take from everything, as one old lady who laid in a chair said in the tent of the Foundation "Dan Voiculescu" for the development of Romania, installed in Sudului market. As a priest wife announcing the new times, she suggested by yelling to the volunteers who offered free tours to the churches from around Bucharest, to ask the ID of the pretenders: "To see if they have voted, that she can not give them just like this, for free". A lady between two ages and ready to break her ankle in the hole in the asphalt, an amateur propagandist, announcing the major achievements of Piedone, urging the line to vote for the PC candidate for parliament.
The stamp "voted" is the food card in European Romania; the royal path of fulfillment of basic needs, here and now, not tomorrow or in four or five years or in the next term. A free chicken is more valuable than a suspended motorway and a channel Bucharest-Danube-Black Sea below. Today's policy is summed up from the strong discussion between three dissatisfied retired old man, settled on a bench in front of the tent of the foundation bearing the name Dan Voiculescu, a candidate in a college from the fourth sector: "Everyone who say that they will give you, in the end will give nothing. "
"What is given" is the fundamental question which politicians must respond to in this election campaign, even if they admit it or not. Some of them admit it in the corners, in whispers. that is not good to offend your electorate: "Ştefăneşti" was the experiment, the training for the great national queue. "To give" is more important than to make, to enhance, to reform, to renew, to change. The major political projects are turned to shreds before this simple and practical request. People no longer believe in politicians, programs, promises, but only in the old healthy saying "what's in hand is not a lie" on which was based the electoral campaign for the past two years of the liberal party of government. PNL has given and expects to collect in autumn the fruits of its sustained generosity from the state budget. Wins who gives more and at the right time.
A member country of the European Union, which is proud of a record-growth of the gross domestic product in 2008, is inhabited by citizens who sell on nothing right won with blood, as pathetic as it may sound. The trading of the votes, the fact that some give and the most people take, shows what the statistics and government reports are hiding: that Romania is so poor that it has lost its pride.
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