Taking into consideration the population present in Romania alone, prime minister Victor Ponta claims that only 8,134,920 voters would have been enough for last year's Referendum (July 29th 2012), for president Băsescu to be suspended, a statement which he made after the National Statistics Institute has published the results of the census, announcing that the stable population of the country is 20,121,641 people and that the number of adults is 16,269,839.

Victor Ponta is basing his statement on the fact that 8,459,053 people voted in the referendum, in other words 300,000 more than would have been needed.

That is true, at least those are the numbers announced last year by the Central Electoral Bureau.

Of course, what Mr. Ponta doesn't explain is whether the votes of over 2 million Romanians living abroad count, which are added to the total of over 20 million people living within the Romanian borders.

Because if they do, then the number of participants required for validating the Referendum increases to approximately 9 million, which exceeds by about half a million the number of people participating in the referendum.

"There were more than 50% of us on July 29th, who staged the < coup d'etat >, like some people who haven't caught up with the times would say, but it isn't helping us much now", Victor Ponta said in the Government meeting, thus giving us a picture of what the level of arithmetic is during the meetings he holds.

Of course, the TV stations of professor Voiculescu, which have not yet gotten as far as "two plus two equal four", kept blasting messages along the lines of "We told you so!" and "Băsescu must go!".

I am not even saying differently. Yes, Băsescu must go.

But with this kind of liars, it would be best if he stayed.

Just to spite them.

F.G. (Translated by Cosmin Ghidoveanu) Taking into con