Băsescu didn't lose the Referendum, and USL didn't win it, regardless of the decision of the Constitutional Court.
The judges of the Court have to solve a complex equation, which also includes their personal destiny, after the threatening developments of the USL - the ordinance rendered by the Government to limit the roles and the alliance of the USL and the CNSC of Mircea Dogaru, who openly speaks about dismantling the Constitutional Court.
I can't understand the hierarchy of criteria which they care about:
- justice?;
- political affinity?;
- their own interest?;
- fear?
None of the parties could do the victory dance: the USL protesters, gathered in University Square in the night of the Referendum, lost their enthusiasm, and stopped waving the flag; the supporters of Băsescu, gathered at his campaign headquarters waved the flag for nothing - there were too few of them.
So no one can check anything in the gains column.
On the other hand, in the losses column we will note the following:
1. The leu fell from 0.2215 lei for a Euro, at the moment of the beginning of the campaign, to 0.2195, when it ended (with a minimum of 0.2155, on July 24th);
2. We threw 95.6 million lei down the drain (the cost of organizing the referendum);
3. We entered the "thorny" zone area of the relations with the international financial organisms, as we failed to honor our commitments, not because we have to fight against their unreasonable nature, but because we are simply dealing with something else;
4. We encouraged potential foreign investors to shy away from our country, which, through its political instability destroyed any potential appetite they might have had to invest here;
5. We altered whatever image we had abroad, as well as our self-perception, divided as we have become into two camps which despi
