I am writing about this after I have read in the Romanian press about the local elections and the IMF report about the Romanian realities. I am writing about this after I have read in the Romanian press about the local elections and the IMF report about the Romanian realities. Even though it had tried for several years to get away from the Fund, the Government in Bucharest has to receive periodical appreciations from it, which are very influential for the world capital market. The IMF says we have reached a financial disequilibrium that should stop the continuation of the social expenses and of the development itself.

The durable development has three pillars: political stability, macro-economical stability and social peace. In Romania, all these pillars have cracks. Actually, the first one doesn’t even exist and we get to feel it in the same way in which a man with an amputated foot feels the shadow of what used to be his foot. The permanent political struggle has brought a permanent disequilibrium in the economy. Populist gifts and group hits have worked together to generate financial balances that look disastrous for any analyst. As far as it is concerned, the social peace is severely ill, the strikes targeting the state have transformed into strikes that target the multinational companies that took its place in the economy, which discourages the investors all over the world.

Ok, the electoral campaign has started! There are regulations from the National Audio-visual Board, suspicions, billboards and protests. But will we ever get to debate?

Mass media have been discussing about several methods of buying the electorate (more or less legally) for a week now. All these are historical superficialities of the Romanian politics, which is not a phenomenon of the savage capitalism that appeared after the revolution or of the nationalist communis