PDSR reproduces its political opponents' moves in order to gain more credibility. The Social Democrat leader's latest speech within the summer school in Busteni organized by the PDSR young members is nothing but a mixture of Russian concepts. Ion Iliescu combined the most different topics in his skilful natural manner. The summer school of the Social Democrat members clearly suggests the regular atmosphere within the party. The other Social Democrat leaders cannot give him up as he is still a strong electoral instrument but they can no longer honor him either. They just tolerate him disdainfully. It is obvious for everybody that Iliescu is no longer a leader but an instrument. The first vice-president Adrian Nastase has taken over the strings of the party. All the strategies, notes, negotiations and removals are plotted by the Nastase cabinet itself. Iliescu is allowed to speak like the old wise man of the tribe in front of his children. Behind his speech there is unfortunately no councilor, a well-thought strategy or a certain aim. He only talks about what comes first in his mind. He joins together pieces of his memories, obsessions, stereotypes, "regular" shams, dissimulated communist nostalgia, democrat slogans and social-democrat idiom in a speech of "dialectical" coherence. The burden of the past that claims its rest speaks for itself. Nevertheless, Adrian Nastase and Razvan Theodorescu (the leader of the Democrat Forum in Romania) announced a list of no more than 500 personalities that support Iliescu's candidacy in reply to the list of the 300 supporters of Mugur Isarescu to presidency. Iliescu's list seems to be a mere bluff at a first sight. Many eminent unknown people and few reliable ones, ill-famed men, former agents of the secret service or teachers and former party activists or even mere PDSR members make up the list of "personalities". Ion Iliescu and