Around the presidential palace a big silence established. Ion Iliescu looks like a quiet man, who wants nothing more from life or Romania. You probably remember that one of the main issues of the electoral campaign was "a more active presidency". The candidates to the presidential seat at Cotroceni came out with more and more daring propositions. The Constitution was searched and everything that looked like a presidential attribution was launched in the fight. We were promised referendums, governmental meetings led by the chief of state and round tables. The promised President was generally more active, full of initiatives, in better relationships with the political world and the society. Meanwhile, Ion Iliescu got President. The current chief of state was, over the electoral confrontation, among the supporters of the maximal presidency. Like PDSR (Social Democracy Party) in the economic field, Iliescu promised as far as Cotroceni was concerned, everything that could be promised. Nothing wrong about it, after all. The problem is that the inhabitant of Cotroceni doesn't seem to remember very well what he was saying a while ago. A big silence fell over the presidential palace. The providential President we were promised was replaced with the pensioner President. Ion Iliescu' s face in his few public apparitions shows the quietness of the one who saw his dream come true and wants nothing more form life. Or from Romania. Letting the impression he hasn't got much to do, Iliescu became the president of small administrations and festive occasions. Seized by the modesty of constitutionality, he is happy with expressing his opinions about different events, instead of being there. He participates in book launchings and seminaries, week-end political festivities, he states what he thinks about kitsch music and soap series, he lets go every now and then one of the smart words th