It's been a week since I wrote that "Traian Băsescu is now keeping silent. His silence is deafening; it is as silent around him as if he were in the dark, at the bottom of the ocean, ("Băsescu, face to face with the people he's turned his back on"/ BURSA, August 23rd, 2012), and in the interim, his silence has become jarring - the Constitutional Court has read its decision to invalidate the referendum before the parliament, the Parliament acknowledged it, the decision was published in the Official Gazette, and he is back in Cotroceni, - yes, HE is there!, Zeus is there!, -, but he is silent.
On Tuesday morning, Traian Băsescu returned to the Cotroceni palace, after 10:00, he has reappointed the advisors dismissed by Antonescu, but he is silent.
Zeus has swallowed his tongue.
Why?!
That is quite a riddle!
Both his supporters and his opponents (and those who aren't either, if you don't mind), all know why: he can't make even the slightest sound, not even burp, without kicking the hornets' nest of the millions of citizens who voted to have him dismissed.
I said it about a week ago, the only word that would be the right choice in this situation would be "I am resigning!"
I bet that Băsescu also knows this.
Băsescu can't ignore the fact that:
- over 7 million people voted against his return to the Cotroceni palace;
- the procedure for his suspension/dismissal can be resumed at any time, after a possible modification of the legislation (by eliminating the quorum requirement) or the accurate update of the permanent electoral lists;
- every day of the shameful return to Cotroceni will be "brightened" by protests in front of it;
- every day of "cohabitation" will cause additional problems to the country and its citizens and will generate arguments in support of attempting to dismiss him again.
He is
