PSD won the parliamentary elections with a minimum advantage. This advantage offers it the possibility to govern or to refuse the Government.

Who is the crazy person wishing to be in a minority government or in a coalition during the worldwide crisis and under the pressure of an authoritarian populist President? Which is the party happy to accept such an image-destructive experience with only a few months before the European and presidential elections?

By showing a total lack in political culture, incompatible even with hypocrisy, President Basescu advised the parties to overcome the doctrinal differences because they will have to deal with the socio-economic crisis and its severe consequences. Or, the gravity of the situation itself requires maximum doctrinal purity for solutions to appear. For the (neo)liberals, the collapse of confidence in financial and capital markets requires saving the banks by injecting them with public money, meaning that everyone will have to solve their problems on their own after the economic blockage. The fact that the state will have only minimal interventions will allow the entrepreneurs to save themselves by self-restructuring actions that would involve speculations on the workforce market. Thus, the deadlock is resolved on behalf of the middle class, employees and pensioners, by killing the people’s savings and the social programs. After that, the game will resume as before. For the social-democrats, fighting against the crisis on short term means protecting the employment, savings and purchasing power; on medium term, it means avoiding the appearance of the people getting rich due to the crisis and rehabilitating the middle class; on long-term, it means the change of the system which led to the emergence of the problem. This is achieved by increasing the role of the state and by the political monitori