For the political parties, any bank is an interesting one. The National bank in particular. These days, PDSR (Social Democracy Party) makes one more alliance. Not a political but a financial one. Not a circumstantial but more a strategic one. It is about Florin Georgescu's appointment - a completely devoted man to PDSR - as a leader of the National Bank. To everyone's amusement, the pretext invoked by the Premier Adrian Nastase for the changing of the BNR governor is to ensure the political independence of the bank. To this maneuver, which betrays an old obsession of PDSR, that of having the BNR's control, the distrust manifested towards those politically unregistered adds. Isarescu was never the man to say the Government that he doesn't agree with promoting some political and financial measures. No matter what political color the government might have, Isarescu manoeuvred in accordance with the space he had. He didn't afford to make observations, as he understood the game of power. And he accepted it. He owes PDSR, which supported him for the function of governor of BNR, as much as he owes PNTCD (National Christian and Democratic Peasant Party), which maintained and proposed him for the function of Prime Minister. Hard to believe that he would be some party's man. This is why the accusation of representing PNTCD's or some other party's interests is childish. Isarescu's replacement, through legislative artifice, is decided in a moment when Romania needs to regain the trust of the international financial organisms. Isarescu is perceived as a specialist by the officials of these organisms and his experience might represent anytime a trump in the negotiations. The ex-premier has also some notable achievements: the successful outrunning of the top of payments of the external debt in 1999, a BNR's currency reserve at the highest level after 1989, which means negotiation p