A double frustration test

Beware of the wicked man and the lisping attorney the weekly newspaper of political humor "Academia Catavencu" has recently warned us with a stern countenance in an article on the liberal leader Valeriu Stoica. Obviously, "the lisping attorney" is by far a nice person. He pulls the strings on the political scene, gives his opinion on everything lisps and flutters everywhere-he really thinks that Romania belongs to him. In less than two months, the unbearable "lisping man" turned the country upside down. He compromised the anticommunist, the Democrat Coalition, the "historical" liberalism, the country-like ethics, the rightist wing and Emil Constantinescu. The fight against corruption, the civic society, the common lists and Traian Remes became meaningless thanks to him. That means everything that the honest, intelligent ordinary Romanian full of dignity has been hoping for years.
Less than two months after the fall of the communist regime, a significant part of the Romanian democratic elite was to enter under the sign of a tremendous frustration. The power that belonged to them, as they felt, after years of waiting was to be "seized" by what it was called later the Iliescu regime. It was horrible. Romania disserved and had to have another destiny. The democratic has had no choice for seven years but improvise a new dream. The Iliescu regime will collapse finally and everything will be right again. That is what happened soon after. But after almost four years, "the power they deserve" seems to be gone. The president Constantinescu, the symbol of the new power, pegged and a man that had nothing to do with the change in 1996 is heading the government. The last four years have been a political failure for the Romanian democratic elite. After the test of the double clash that our democracy passed at the same time with the change of the Iliescu regime the test of the double frustration follows. To admit the political failure of the last four years and to act consciously seems to be essential now. The liberals accompanied by Valeriu Stoica have been trying to do so. It is neither treachery nor forgery. It’s just politics.
The Romanian democracy will be mature enough when our democratic elite gets rid of the second source of frustration that the last four years of political failure represent. It will be then when Valeriu Stoica and the liberals’ moves will no longer be considered a heresy.
(By Pavel LUCESCU)