Ion Cristoiu affirms that it would be normal for Romania to become a presidential republic to harmonize the Constitution with reality and end the electoral tricks that Iohannis also softened: he gets involved in the internal political battle, he practically leads the Government, with which he holds meetings .
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We reproduce in full the editorial published on cristoiublog.ro:
The press conference on Wednesday, September 9, 2020 was from end to end a long series of moments of the electoral campaign launched by the president in favor of a political party: the PNL. The peak was reached by presenting the PNL as the main party in the country and as the winner of the local elections with an overwhelming score:
It is known that one of the figurations of the parties in the electoral campaign consists in overcoming force and especially the result that it will obtain. We will beat, we will crush, are the slogans used in football to instill confidence in team members. On Wednesday, September 9, 2020, this electoral agitation was not maintained by the leaders of the PNL, but by the head of state.
Klaus Iohannis’ speech opened from the rostrum of the Presidential Palace on the election campaign as a loud chibiţ is a premiere in post-December history and a new step towards the transformation of the president from head of the semi-presidential republic to head of the presidential republic. I am taking a new step, because the process started from the mandate of Traian Băsescu, more precisely from the historic day January 6, 2005, when the new president, Traian Băsescu, attacked in public, through an interview in Adevărul, a party politician, PDSR, and defamed another party, calling it an immoral solution, Dan Voiculescu’s PUR.
I was writing about this moment at one point:
Until then, such a gesture was inconceivable. The constitution clearly states that the president must stand above the political parties.
In the 1992-1996 term, when Ion Iliescu appeared on a PDSR poster, the press, the Opposition, was quick to condemn him.
Keeping the president above the battle between the parties, a position required by the Constitution, was at that time an axiom the size of the Roundness of the Earth.
Later, Emil Constantinescu took this condition into account. Like Ion Iliescu, Emil Constantinescu guided CDR. But he did it with discretion, avoiding a manifest violation of the Constitution.
Until then, no president has allowed himself to rise through the ranks of the presidential office in the realm of domestic politics. Unfortunately, the CCR, as always subject to the powers of the moment and not to the power that is Eternity, did justice to Traian Băsescu through the decision of January 28, 2005. The reason is ridiculous. In other words, the president, being a citizen, has the right to have an opinion. A shameful motivation, typical of bondage motivations. A man who has become a dignitary is no longer simply a citizen. He is a citizen subject to certain rules. The pilot in charge of the plane on landing is not a simple citizen, he is a citizen responsible for the lives of those on the plane and therefore cannot get drunk during the service because he has the freedom to shower. Also the president. He does not enjoy freedom of expression, because his words have the power of deeds. If the president had freedom of expression, then he could attack his strategic partners on Facebook, or he could praise dictatorships by claiming to have done so as a citizen.
During the two terms, introducing in post-December the concept of president player, Traian Băsescu initiated the process of removal from the office of president from the constitutional prerogative of arbitrator of internal political life. Klaus Iohannis completed this process. During his six-year tenure, he served as president of a presidential republic. In the first part of 2020, he led from Cotroceni in public the maneuvers to trigger the early elections. Although the Constitution clearly stipulates the special conditions under which the president can intervene in the activity of the Government, Klaus Iohannis practiced the convocation of the ministers to Cotroceni, with whom he worked as president of the presidential republic.
How did you get here?
Speculating on a reality Fanari from Romania.
The public spirit in Romania is defined by what I called the straw fire syndrome. Public opinion ignites quickly, burns with confusion, and then fades just as quickly. If nothing happens to the person who caused the scandal during power-up, you are saved. Worse still, he or someone else will view the absence of a sanction as public acceptance as the correct course of action. And from that moment on, he or someone else will repeat the illegality without this time shocking public opinion. The same happened with the transformation of the semi-presidential function into a presidential function. The summons of ministers to the head of state, as if Romania were a constitutional monarchy, surprised for the first time. Since nothing happened to Klaus Iohannis, the convocation of ministers became an accepted norm as if it were legal. The same happened with the replacement of ministers by Klaus Iohannis at press conferences on the Pandemic. The violation of the Constitution was overlooked for the first time. The second time it seemed like a constitutional rule.
The straw fire syndrome is not the only explanation for the president’s growing distancing from the limits imposed by the Constitution of the semi-presidential Republic.
Another explanation refers to the Romanians’ vision of the position of president. Schizophrenic in many of its articles, the 1990 Constitution achieves paranoia in the case of the semi-presidential republic. The President of Romania is elected by direct and universal suffrage. In terms of votes, it is the dignitary who benefits from the sympathy of the majority of Romanians. An attempt was made to abandon that formula of choice. The reaction of the Romanians was definitely against. Why? Because Romanians see a dad as president. Of course, this is not good, it is not democratic, it is not modern, but in terms of the internal politics of a country, the analyst must also take into account the specificities of the people. The need for Tătuc is expressed in the transformation of the presidential elections into a crossroads of the nation.
That is why, once in Cotroceni, the President of the Republic realizes that he fought in vain to win the votes of the Romanians. Although the most voted dignitary in Romania, although the most visible, although the man of whom the nation, fed up with dad, hopes to get involved in acts of government, often going down, as happened in the Pandemic, with public interventions at the level of a secretary . State, not much can be done. The status of the semi-presidential president of the Republic makes him a lion that cannot pass the scratches of a cat. The president heads the country as the party’s representative. In the electoral campaign he faces the envoys of the other parties. The electoral battle is also a battle between parties. In most cases, the People’s election also takes into account the party whose candidate was president. After the elections, the president resigns from the party that fought hard to send him to Cotroceni. The 1990 constitution requires you not to be a member of a party and, of course, not act as a member of a party. But can the president remain neutral in the political battle of the parties in which his party participates after the presidential elections? It’s hard to say yes. The president arrived in Cotroceni based on the political program of the party that sent him to the campaign. But here is the president forced not to intervene in the internal battle when the policy for which he fought to get to Cotroceni is questioned by political opponents.
The reality of the 30 years of post-Decemberism shows that no president has resisted the temptation to get involved in the internal political battle, to lead My Government. The first presidents did so with discretion, fearing to violate the Constitution. The latter, Traian Băsescu, Klaus Iohannis, no longer had these precautions. It would be normal for Romania to become a presidential republic. The Constitution would thus be in accordance with the truth of life. We would have a president who would be officially involved in the leadership of the Government, but who would be electorally responsible for that. Right now, the president’s position is a huge ruse. He gets into the internal political battle, practically leads the Government, with whom he holds meetings in Cotroceni, but when it goes wrong, the Government responds badly. A trick that Klaus Iohannis likes. This explains the answer given by Klaus Iohannis to the question posed by Iosif Buble from the news sources. ro at the press conference on August 26, 2020:
Klaus Iohannis: I think the president may or may not be a member of the party. In my opinion, it doesn’t really matter. How the president acts is important and I think it is important, and I strive to do so, to act for Romania and for the Romanians.>
Apparently Klaus Iohannis is dying to be the president of all Romanians on paper, and actually to be the president of NLP.
He does not want to change the Constitution. He prefers to rape him. “
NOTE: This editorial is taken in its entirety from cristoiublog.ro.
