The tacit agreement in the protocols signed between PDSR and the Opposition, whose witness is the public opinion, was that the Romanian political forces support PDSR for the important effort aiming at passing over the critical phase of reform in 2001. One can imagine very few reasons for which maintaining valid the collaboration protocol between PNL (National Liberal Party) and PDSR (Social Democracy Party) would have been benefic for any of the parties or to the political process in Romania in general. Historically, the protocol was part of an isolation process, a directly political one but a symbolic one too on all fronts, directed against PRM (Greater Romania Party) after the elections last November. Important immediately after the elections in order to show the "political health" of a Romania that knows how to deny extremism, but also in order to allow the formation of a government, the agreements signed by PDSR with PNL and UDMR (Democratic Union of the Hungarians in Romania), as well as the common declaration signed with PD (Democratic Party) got to create confusion regarding who and according to what principles rules Romania and, especially, who might run it in the future if PDSR lost the next elections. Watching form the Occident perspective, more precisely form Washington, the Romanian political stage seemed blocked in a very strange way: PDSR ruling, the rest of the parties gathered around it, from UDMR to PRM, out of different reasons. PD, the only exception, had not the time to confirm, too busy with the competition between Roman and Basescu. The question was and still is: who capitalizes the popularity diminishing of PDSR, preparing to take over, if the situation comes, with fresh forces, a new rule? Who is the Opposition? Giving up the protocol with PDSR, PNL tries to say it: we are, we are the opposition. It is a clarification the West is waiting for,