The opening of the electoral campaign for local elections can bring some surprises, but not as significant as the ones in the general elections The democratic regime in Romania is entering the crisis again. The official electoral campaign for local elections is to be open today. A new electoral cycle is to start again at least from the calendar point of view at the same time. Local authorities are to be elected: mayors, members of the local councils and of county ones. The electoral campaigns are meant to allow people who want to run for public functions by the popular vote to bring forward their offers. It's high time for the great debates and opinion fights to start. Their practical aim should be not only the election of the best candidate, but also most of all the choice of the best ruling program to administrate the community. This should lead to an improvement of our life. From this point of view, the electoral campaigns are the triumph moment of democracies. Unfortunatelly, the political, economical and social circumstances don't seem to be the most suitable ones to such prospective. Nobody seems to expect great electoral fights great outbursts of political passions, great propaganda campaigns. For many Romanians, the electoral campaign is either a prolongation of the floods in Transilvania (the West Side of Romania) or a kind of bingo show but without winning numbers. The Romanians have little trust in elections and much less in the local ones. The fact is possibly connected to the lack of the democratic tradition, but it is rather due to a kind of a national specific character. Our political culture perceives the local elections as a game almost of no stake. The local elections would make up just a preparation, a prelude of the great fight in autumn in this respect. Policy seems to be done only at Bucharest for most of Romanians. Policy means most of all the