Yesterdayâs heavy rain got to the Parliamentâs plenum room, paying a short visit to the few senators that had woken up and had managed to get to work before 9:00 a.m.
The rainâs choice was the DP (Democratic Party) Senator Jan Vraciu, who saw his new desk in the last row, in the central part of the plenum room, getting wet. When he looked up to the roomâs cupola, Vraciu was amazed to see that the drops of water were real and there were others to drop on his desk-mates and they were as cold as the first ones.
SHELTER. Vraciu sees his own umbrella ("âcause the Senate didnât think of giving us umbrellas, they only gave us cars" - Jan Vraciu), which was abandoned somewhere under the desk, and opens it. His colleagues come to help him: one brings a rag, another one a word of solidarity⦠Presidentâs Vacaroiu hawk eyes notice the movements in the back of the room and commands: "Mr. Senator, please put your umbrella away because it isnât raining anymore!" Where? Outside? Because in the superb new room of the Senate, in which billions of lei were invested, the rain drops continued making themselves at home. Moreover, they conquest some other territories as well.
Somewhere, right behind President Vacaroiu, other drops begin to fall. The foyer in front of the plenum room is in the same situation, and the puddle on the marble floor is the "wet" proof of the fact. Meanwhile, in the room, the phenomenon of parliamentary migration goes into another phase: DP member Vraciu, wet from the rain and forced by the circumstances, brings all his stuff in the GRP (Great Romania Party) side.
In the same time, DP member Verginia Serbanescu tries to wipe her rained chair and says the Senateâs General Secretary had warned them in the morning to take their umbrellas because it was raining, but she had taken it as a joke! Actually, the Senateâs Genera
