Petre Roman can hardly see himself in the picture of the presidential elections on the coming fall. Does the Democrat leader have a chance to recover? Petre Roman is standing for Romania's presidency again. Although not nominated officially yet-a formality for the PD leader-he announced his intention to run for the position anyway during a TV show several days ago. It would be the State Secretary's second attempt of the kind. In 1996, at his first attempt he was about to enter the second tour by around 20 percents. Anyway, for the party he dragged after him the elections four years ago were completely successful. The party entered the governmental coalition and the political and economical followers insured four years of welfare. Nevertheless we can't say then same thing about Petre Roman. In the recent three years' polls he hardly exceed five-six percents in a possible candidature for Cotroceni. In spite of the relatively unexpected success got by his party at the recent local elections, Petre Roman's popularity is still extremely low. The last opinion poll gives him a 7 percent credit. Assuming the position of a State Secretary after three "vegetarian" years on the head of the Senate, he doesn't seem to get his image improved. The last political event, Emil Constantinescu's withdrawal from the presidential race, brought him into an even more awkward position. Completely isolated from any recent negotiation and alliance game and the free promotion, he and his party have lost the opportunity to fill the hole left by Emil Constantinescu. At this moment, games seem to have been already made in his respect. Besides his same old opponent, Teodor Melescanu that had already taken a good deal of his electorate, the star of the day, Mugur Isarescu and Theodor Stolojan cast him into a deeper shade. Petre Roman can hardly see himself in the picture of the presidential election