If Miron Cozma's miners had succeeded last month to get to Bucharest, any scenario for the country's evolution is scary. Though the didn't get to Bucharest, a new long-term threat over Romania remained: the expansion of extremism, a trend whose promoter is PRM leader Corneliu Vadim Tudor. Extremism is obviously dangerous when the parties representing it get in power either with ballot or with active or passive popular support. The latest months' drive in polls of Vadim Tudor has had the mission to seriously concern those who know to read beyond estimations and diagrams. Let's see whether PRM and its leader can be intelligent enough to become a real danger for the country's future. First of all, let's remind a recent event. Late last week, Vadim Tudor told on a press conference this week he would "initiate a tremendous attack against Romania's president, because of which Emil Constantinescu would have to resign, or to hang himself, and millions of people and the Mafia which got him to power would attend his funerals". Some more statements made by the PRM leader: "Each injustice Constantinescu has done against PRM will mean one more year in prison", or "For the genocide policy and for the high treason crime, Constantinescu will be sentenced to life prison. He should not forget what I've told him now". As these statements are of the kind Vadim Tudor has already got us used to, they don't surprise too many. However, they can be surprising. The are made by a man whose party has been rated in the last two polls with 15% and 19% respectively. On this level, any party leader with brains has to redefine his strategy, in order attract people from other categories of the constituency. Ion Iliescu's example, who has begun a liberal type offensive with the constituency by making shifts in attitude concerning the property and reform, is worth-mentioning. It would be naïve for anyo