According to the official announcements made by now, there will be three candidates for the SDP presidency. Taking into account the present situation of the former governing party, only two of them will fight for the votes of the upcoming congress. Antonie Iorgovan doesn’t have any support or leader calling despite his appetite for direct confrontations. Geoana or Oprescu? If Ion Iliescu doesn’t change his mind in the last minute (which I doubt he will because Oprescu is quite close to him), this is the question that the SDP delegates have to ask themselves. Who will they choose? The answer depends on the SDP members’ consciousness, on the backstage tricks and on the commission for the votes’ counting. They both have good parts and bad parts. Let’s try a comparative analysis of the two.

The main advantages of Geoana are the fact that he is the current president, the notorious support of the professional wire pullers (Mitrea, Rus, Hrebenciuc…), the ones that have actually brought him in his current position. Moreover, after having helped the current power and got sure of multiple penal immunities, they are the ones able to operate the financial faucets necessary for such a party in order to force a comeback. The fact that Marian Vanghelie (the former deputy of Sorin Oprescu in Bucharest) joined his group is a hard hit for the former active Manager of the University Hospital. The downsize of Mircea Geoana is represented by the disastrous results of the party during the period since he took over. The polls, no matter the persons who had ordered them, confirm it. Some other disadvantages would be the notorious complicities with the President (to whom he delivered the perfect man for the SRI leading chair, the same President that has already crushed in the local elections and to whom he would be the perfect candidate for the next presidential elections),