One can hardly imagine a political scene more restive than the Romanian one is nowadays. Let’s make a brief re-cap and say that the D.A. Alliance disbanded, with one of the two member parties, the Democratic Party (PD), outside the government arch, and the Tariceanu 2 Government was voted by a trans-party majority negotiated in Parliament. This is the same parliament that votes to suspend the President on grounds that he violated the Constitution, and the referendum over the dismissal of the head of state will be held on May 19. Emotions run high, it becomes difficult to delineate the long-term allies. ‘Friendships’ and alliances are only transitory.
Amid this background, disputes are the order of the day. They set the former allies, party leaders from both camps against one another, party leaders against the suspended president, the resigned ministers against the newly appointed ones.
Well, those between the ministers in the Tariceanu 1 and Tariceanu 2 cabinets are mind-boggling. The latest such squabbles, which took place during some talk-shows on the ‘Realitatea TV’ channel, pitied the agriculture ministers (former and present) and those of transports, respectively. For the viewers less familiar with the fields concerned, the often-violent verbal quarrels did not bring any enlightenment on the issues at stake. The discussion between the present and the former Minister of Agriculture Decebal Traian Remes and Gheorghe Flutur, respectively (the latter, a member of the newly created Liberal-Democrat Party and a supporter of impeached President Traian Basescu) was bewildering.
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