Emil Constantinescu's speech on the seventh anniversary of the Romanian Constitution has all data of a classic balance. Achievements, drawbacks, dangers, urges and solemn commitments. On achievements chapter - anyway, a rather brief one - there is the so-called "progress in institutional construction", democratic legislation, ruling power succession "correctly and constructively" assumed by state institutions and their representatives. There come drawbacks. Here the president reports what opinion polls are more and more persistently revealing: "a concerning distrust (of the public opinion) in the capacity of some fundamental democratic institutions - the Parliament and parties - to resolve issues which mainly concern the people". And the urge: "it is the fundamental obligation of these institutions to examine their performance critically and seriously" and "the obligation of state institutions to make themselves "respected by citizens, by primarily respecting their will and fundamental interests". We get now to "dangers and threats". Here the president is violently contesting, only improperly here and there. In our point of view, the president's completely unforgivable mistake is a mixture of plans. He puts two entirely different things on the same balance tray, and suggests there is a direct connection between them: on the one hand, the political extremism, with an obvious hint to Great Romania party, and its ever more aggressive and harmful leader, accidentally mentioning what he calls "the guilt" of those who would like to use him silently, a hint to PDSR; on the other hand - what the president terms as "one of the most dangerous forms of guerrilla against state institutions, recently developed by opinion leaders", namely the attempt to initiate "the idea of state authority dissolution". What the president not seems to notice is not only the lack of any connection