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Demagogue. Populist. Former sailor from the promise easy. Or again: the small Balkan
Berlusconi. From here the epithets buckled to the President of Romania, Traian Basescu, the
politician most 'loved and hated' after the Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, now have
become famous. As the jokes about him circulating among the taverns, schools and markets. But
especially as budgets in the red of his second mandate, what he had promised growth from
Europe and the Great is rather repulsed the country among the pariahs. At the risk of a crash just
over three years from the celebrated joining the European Union. Yet he does not seem to mind.
Tried to minimize the effects of economic crisis, saying that as an example, he turned to
Bucharest on an old Dacia and ate only tomatoes, but was then forced to introduce the most
draconian budget post-communist era. And if millions of Romanians fled from their land, it was
just a mockery of history. I know he called as the emperor Trajan in the second century
conquered Dacia. Today he managed to bring that name to the Quirinal Balkan Palatul Cotroceni
even jokes: 'The Romanians are in Italy? We are returning the favor to those who colonized us,
'said the height of the controversy over the case Reggiani and fingerprints for the Roma. Except
then tie the authorship of the measure that threatened to cause frost to Rome, no less than his
beloved prime minister. And the undisputed model. Just him, Silvio Berlusconi.
It will also be a chance that the Democratic Party's liberal Balkan leaders will shorten its PDL, as
the people of the Knight. Yet by the ruler of Arcore, that strange Transylvanian Viceroy seems to
have borrowed flaws and quirks. First of all the mania of government departments to send pupils
and former model, as his favorite, the blonde Elena Udre, wife of the powerful businessman Dorin
Cocos and now head of the department of Tourism in the footsteps of fellow Italian, this time red,
Michela Brambilla. Knew her when she worked as a lawyer and became one of the closest
advisers to presidentissimo. After several times at the center of scandals over procurement and
European funds (in 2004 resigned as adviser to have helped some friends of her husband), the
minister is most famous for gaffes that its decrees and its reforms. One evening he said on live
TV - you dealing with international promotion - that Norway was a republic, sparking the wrath of
the monarchy of King Harald V. The other former model came up with the presidential spintarelle
is nothing less than the beautiful second daughter Elena Basescu, 29 years and a degree in
international relations. Also brings you the name of the wife of Ceausescu, but in local VIPs in
Bucharest is better known as 'Barbie' or 'Paris Hilton'. Especially the desire to bring morning and
unfamiliarity with the Romanian grammar. Traian habits inherited from dad, unrepentant night owl
and fixture of downtown restaurants like the Golden Blitz. He does not like the escort and guide
the Dacia alone, He's moved up there to celebrate victories and political football, as when Walter
Zenga led Steaua Bucharest in the second round of the UEFA Cup. Now his favorite place was
closed, so he He's transferred to Casa Doina, two steps, to keep good habits at age 58.
Elena is no exception and prefers the acronym nicknames 'Eba' (Elena Basescu), leading also
printed on the plate custom of his Range Rover. No wonder, then, that his candidacy has sparked
the 2009 European storm in the country. At that point Alina Mungiu Pippidi, chairman of the
Academic Society, has retired Basescu accused of nepotism and politics that he sold off the
papers. So Traian 'cel Mare', meaning the Great, has created the second tricksy, yes denying his
daughter a symbol of its PDL, but deployed as independent stronger 200 000 signatures gathered
by the structure loyal to Prime Minister Emil Boc powerful economy minister Adriean Videanu.
Italian style is marked also repeated dictates that Basescu addresses the European Parliament,
often beyond its constitutional powers. Vetoes, public protests, accusations that are hurled by the
former House Cotroceni Poporului built on the ruins of the historic old town devastated by the
scheme: an intervention that their predecessors Iliescu and Constantinescu would cost him his
seat in a few weeks, but the Romanians have become accustomed to grant the leader of the
PDL. One often forgets to mention the EU in his speeches, but that does not skimp on the myth
ever undisputed U.S.. In December, he told during the election campaign of a pact with the White
House for the missile defense system. Ships, army from the third millennium, factories at full
capacity and pots of money. Forget it happens to mention the 20 billion International Monetary
Fund needed to prevent, rather, the failure of the state.
As for looks, Basescu copied to Berlusconi - but revised and corrected - even a change of hair
between the first and second term. Passing on the advice of First Lady Mary, from flashy to carry
his head shaved during the months when the Italian premier was hiding under the bandana raised
the hair on Capri brand new. Not to mention the invectives against the communists, so that recall
the refrain of the Knight. Commissions for research, opening files, critical to the Social
Democrats. But Basescu was in turn accused of a misty past: before 1989 it would cooperate with
the Securitate, Ceausescu's notorious secret police. Habit that is not lost, given that Romania is
ranked, according to the newspaper 'Adevarul', first in Europe in terms of intelligence structures:
seven departments of espionage and a relationship between secret agents and citizens of six
times greater than ' FBI. As even the times of communist dictatorship had never happened. Do
not miss even one case Scajola in his biography. An apartment bought by the State at a
preferential price, which triggered the controversy as to the way Fagutal overlooking the
Colosseum. Basescu, however, he has not fooled and left after two weeks of clashes in
newspapers and TV have returned all the people. Well aware that the Romanian law - now sitting
at Cotroceni - would guarantee a home state even after the end of the mandate.
The 'Silviu' Carpathian keeping pace even as a gaffe. Once he gave the 'dirty Gypsy' at a reporter
who tried to interview him at the supermarket. Snatched the phone and took him into her car. Too
bad it was in operation and that his insults at the Roma people in a few minutes they were doing
the rounds of Romania, while he, oblivious, she returned home with his wife. Or the time that they
drove another calling him 'fag' to end up to allow the Gay Pride in Bucharest that even the mayor
wanted. A markedly certainly not new to Basescu, who won the European fame in 2001 when he
was himself the first citizen of the capital. He ordered the extermination of thousands of stray
dogs, homeless and ownerless after the devastation of the city by the Communist regime and
then the return of confiscated homes up to 89. And alloys against animal abuse rallied en masse,
but by Traian clearly do not see right. From Paris, aboard a private jet, rushed in Romania even
Brigitte Bardot denouncing the 'tyranny' of the President. Seraphic But he said, staring at the
screen with slightly crossed eyes that always shows in her posters (one looking West and the
other east) that if she liked so much he could caricarseli plane and take them to France.
So a former sailor Basarab, son of the Black Sea and Turkish air near the south-east, won for the
second time in presidential elections even with a minimal deviation from the challenger, former
Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, favorite of the polls. Only 75,000 votes coming, as it happens,
the Romanian diaspora. Yeah. From the thousands of exiles from Spain, France, Germany and
Italy also voted for their Trajan, overturning the late night exit polls that seemed to return to
Romania for the Social Democrats. To remember that nothing is served by Basescu left center-
left to land on the right. Or dig up the impeachment of 2007, when as President was impeached
by Parliament for interference in the justice system. A fatal blow that seemed the most popular
politician in Eastern Europe, but that turned out to be a boomerang for his accusers. Basescu
mobilized people and intellectuals, gathered over a hundred signatures only among philosophers
such as Gabriel and Andrei PLESU Liiceanu, or writers of the caliber of Cartarescu and Mircea
Horia Roman Patapievici. And he won the battle that seemed impossible with 74 percent of the
vote. A plebiscite swear this time the Romanian political scientists, who would not be able to
respond. As weakened by the economic crisis, cuts that are going to cripple millions of civil
servants, stunned by a financial light years away from the promise of growth and wealth that had
made during the election campaign. And especially from the offensive afraid that the tycoons
enemies could launch against a government suddenly announced that the crisis between real and
wobbles everyday. 'Mogul', you call in Romania, Sorin Ovidiu Vantu how publishers and Dan
Voiculescu. Or as former friend Dinu Patriciu oil today steely opponent of the small Balkan
dictator.