Started on Thursday, the 29th of June 2006, the Calin Popescu Tariceanu-Basescu confrontation regarding our presence in Iraq has ended.
Like all the Romanians usually do, the journalists have formed two sides: the pro-Basescu side and the pro-Tariceanu side.
The passionate attention to the conflict has caused the absence of a clear radiography of the scandal.
This radiography is needed now more than ever.
Because, for the first time since the beginning of the conflict between the Palaces (last summer), Calin Popescu Tariceanu used the weapons of Traian Basescu.
The explanation.
In December 2004, before the second round of the Presidential elections, Traian Basescu went live on all the TV stations to announce the fraud regarding the elections and, therefore, to ask for the canceling of the first round of the parliamentary and presidential elections.
He made it up. However, the moment had its great importance for the strategy of a political battle.
We could call this the Gutsâ Strategy: the conscious creation of a major crisis the consequences of which could be fatal for both the adversaries.
The other side, Adrian Nastase respectively, had two options: to go on with the crisis by asking for the canceling of the elections as well, or to sit back and strive to remain at the same level or even to try to make it seem smaller.
As a good strategist of the dangerous crises, Traian Basescu guessed Adrian Nastase would sit back. The victory was amazing. The electorate thought Adrian Nastase and SDP (the Social Democratic Party) didnât go on because they had indeed falsified the elections.
If Adrian Nastase and SDP realized this was only a strategy and went on with the repeating of the elections, Traian Basescu would have met a very difficult situation. He knew the repeating of the elections would have meant
