Băsescu has finally spoken.
For the first time after being completely silent.
I was expecting him to announce his resignation.
But he isn't.
Yes, I am one of those people who claim that the Referendum was nothing but an attempt to politically speculate the drop in popularity of the president.
Speculation accompanied by filthy propaganda, full of lies, by stimulating hate, amid the popular discontent.
I claim that the USL has confiscated the popular discontent, for its own political benefit, without any intention to improve our life: its only goal - the complete takeover of power, the absolute control of the institutions of the state.
Yes, I claim that imposing the Referendum did not abide the rules of democracy.
Yes, I claim that "the Antonescu alternative" is trash.
I am not fond of Băsescu, but I reject lies.
Lies, propaganda, hate.
Speculative as it was, the Referendum did however, take place.
By hook or by crook, Băsescu is back in Cotroceni.
What happens now?
Do we go on undeterred?!
There was a referendum, for God's sake!
We can't pretend it didn't happen, the Referendum was hammered in a reality which we are now living in.
Approximately half of the electorate voted for Băsescu to be dismissed.
We have to carry that with us.
Whereas before the Referendum, dealing with the presidential protests, the argument of the elections of 2009, it can't be used this time.
What moral right does Băsescu have to still speak to the nation?
What legitimacy does the president have?
Who is going to listen to him?
Those who didn't vote in the Referendum?
And the others, who did, what are they thinking?
They may have been the victims of lies and propaganda - but irrespective of that they may have been, they are citizens, and they have
