The press has automatically presented Theodor Stolojan's withdrawal as a coup de theatre. This is the result of the media’s hunger for sensational as well as of its incapacity to reveal the underground of our political strategies.
In our opinion, the gesture of the named Prime Minister is not a coup de theatre. Or, whatever, is not an actual coup de theatre: a moment absolutely inexplicable. More facts tell us that the early withdrawal was somewhat predictable. The one in October 2008 is one of them. Beyond the electoral tactics of the JT Alliance, aimed at taking by surprise the enemy called PSD, one of the causes of soap-opera moment, which remained in the history as “Dear Stolo”, was the psychological fragility of Theodor Stolojan. Simply, the presidential candidate of the JT Alliance gave in under the pressure of the electoral campaign.
A similar thing happened these days. The new alliance, PD-L - PSD, required and requires an extraordinary psychological resistance. Resistance to the reactions of the media and of the public opinion. Resistance to the out of the ordinary tension caused by the extremely tough negotiations for the ministries. He escaped from this point of view a significant detail during the signing of the so-called Pact for Romania. In the painting of the hallucinating agitation in the protocol room from the Senate, the appointed Prime Minister, theoretically the most important man of the moment, occupied a secondary place, not to say an unimportant one.
The central seats belonged to the two presidents of the parties and, especially, to the local barons of PSD and PD-L. The scene has proved to be more than significant for the role that the two formations were giving to Theodor Stolojan. More likely, when it got to the most important stage for the formation of the new government, the appointed Prime Mini
