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The municipal elections have passed, but there are still some options for citizens that at least surprise. Politicians convicted or accused of serious acts have won important positions, including the mayor’s office, as is the case of Cristian Popescu Piedone, re-elected in sector 5. He was sentenced in December 2019, to 8 years and 6 months in prison with execution for the commission of the crime of abuse of office in relation to the issuance of operating permits of the Collective club. The appeal trial began this month. There are other similar cases in the territory. The psychiatrist Gabriel Diaconu and the anthropologist Radu Umbreș explained, in Digi24, what are the reasons for these elections.
“In some communities, the relationship between man and administration passes through an individual. They are strangled communities. People know Vasile, they don’t care if Vasile has problems with the law, because people know that Vasile solves their problems. It is a stage. In other communities, let’s say that people have gone through several cycles of social, intellectual and professional involution and then their ability to choose is flawed. Perhaps people laughed at the situation in Deveselu, but there is a case study that would be worth more than laughter. Why should people vote for a dead man? The way people used the vote as a kind of ‘goodbye’, as a kind of tribute, “said psychiatrist Gabriel Diaconu.
“As for Mr. Popescu Piedone, 5 years ago I was in this study, immediately after Colectiv, and I was very excited. I think that even in sector 5 of the Capital, 5 years ago there was excitement, because some of the young people from Colectiv also lived in sector 5. What happened in these years with the people who voted for Piedone, again, for me That is a good question. In the end, the question is whether a mayor should be a man of good morals ”, he added.
Anthropologist Radu Umbreș says that people have different perceptions of morality.
“Take into account, for example, stereotypes about sexual violence or assault, where the victims are blamed. Children are physically disciplined, perhaps even humiliated. The interesting thing is when some candidates have committed an illegal and immoral act and yet are elected, ”he says.
“When citizens choose someone who has really done something wrong, the saying goes: ‘he stole, but he did it.’ We stopped at “stole”. That’s it, he can no longer be chosen. But for other people, the decision may be influenced by the second part: he stole, and the others steal, let’s see what affects me, what services will he provide me as mayor, in the end he did not rape me, he did not beat my son, maybe he took some money, but it is not my money, it is not really a fact to have this moral rectitude.
It is a saying: “Better cheer it up then morality.” You have to be rich to have this position of high moral rectitude, to reject a mayor because he stole. Some people can live with a very short waiting horizon, they cannot wait for that local hero, they will choose a compromise solution that will make their life easier in the short term and they will do it rationally, because for them there is only this short term. . We must understand that they are not irrational or strange, but rather that they see the world from a different point of view than ours, those of us who are wealthy, rich and allow ourselves to make such moral judgments, “he added.
About Devesel’s people, the anthropologist says they were “perfectly rational.”
“The candidate they wanted to vote for died, the party they wanted to vote for and the only solution to have a mayor of the party they supported was to cancel the vote by electing the deceased. They then held a common sense funeral for the man they respected, “he said.
Editing: Monica Bonea
