President Emil Constantinescu is stepping into the political arena again to rebuild his old electoral base On Sunday, at the most exciting PNTCD meeting closure in the last few years, president Constantinescu delivered the party "a personal message", that he wanted to be "one of trust and support". His statement was offensive, direct and very touching. He hailed the decisions taken by the Permanent Delegation plenum, respectively, of getting rid of Radu Vasile's enemies. He asked the participants for more combatively attitudes and confidence in the party. The president showed the PNTCD members the way and the means, like a real elder brother or an old brother in arms if not like a spiritual leader of the party. This is not exactly what a president is asked to do, namely to interfere into the party's affairs or to identify himself, even rhetorically, with it. But this is due to the constitutional hypocrisy in which we live. The in force Constitution wants a politically neutral president though the president was politically elected and he is asked for political support. Besides, the former president Iliescu acted in the same way, four years ago, with his party. Nevertheless, Mr. Constantinescu's assertion is much more than a simple reiteration of a political life ritual. It confirms, above all, Mr. Constantinescu's new political strategy, that one of getting closure to the political world. More or less disgusted or glad to do that, the president discovers that he is not a Martian and he has to come into light and dance with the wolves in arena if he wants to rule and most of all, to win the next elections. At the same time, he doesn't wish to be regarded as an ordinary party politician, who is interested in nothing else but the political fight. This is one of the reasons for which he preferred to come at the end of the Peasant Party meeting, after the party had become