Andrei Marga's resignation expresses once again the incapacity of PNTCD (National Christian and Democratic Peasant Party) to get free of a certain type of attitude that has marked it since the party was still ruling. Andrei Marga's resignation from the leadership of PNTCD could be interpreted in different ways: as an abdication he made in front of the pressure of some barons of the party - with special reference to Radu Sirbu and Ioan Muresan, people that the former president had permanently accused of immorality and wanted excluded from the Peasants; as a skilful attempt to force their total debarking at the extraordinary congress in December; or just a masked acknowledgement of the failure in the former ruling party's attempt to reform and revitalize itself. No matter which explanation might be closer to the truth, unfortunately for PNTCD, the relevance of the event for the Romanian political life would remain, eventually, a marginal one, beyond the several spectacular titles in the press. The party seems not to have either the energy or the necessary resources to return in the foreground. It is possible that its historical time vanished, in spite of the nostalgia some still feel as for it. How did we get here? PNTCD built itself amorphously around Corneliu Coposu and some other historic leaders, most of them aged people, mainly defining themselves as anti-Communists and natural adversaries of a PDSR (Romanian Social Democracy Party) seen as a masked continuer of the former PCR (Romanian Communist Party). Led by the popular wave in 1996 but hidden under the umbrella of an eclectic coalition as CDR (Romanian Democratic Party), whose leadership the Peasants took over as an expression of a plus of assumed historic legitimacy rather than due to the quality of the leaders or of the force of the structures that it held at the time, PNTCD got to power without being ready