An extremely significant moment in the life and activity of the SDP led by Mircea Geoana has passed as a watch in the night.

On Friday, the 20th of October 2006, Marian Vanghelie, the SDP (the Social Democratic Party) Bucharest Executive President, has called the Organization’s Executive Bureau to discuss the possible candidacy of Sorin Oprescu for the party president. The fact that Marian Vanghelie did this is the first of many strange events at SDP. As far as we know, the Organization’s President is the only one to call a session of the Executive Bureau. The second strange thing is the fact that Sorin Oprescu was abroad when this happened. He was present at the session on Friday by pure accident. He got back into the country because he found out about the session called by his deputy. The third strange thing is the attitude of the Bureau’s members. There wasn’t one to ask themselves about the reason for which they should attend a session called by Marian Vanghelie without the President’s knowledge.

These strange things could be explained by facts in a reality held apart from the eyes of the public opinion in the well-known SDP style, very much related to the secrecy specific to the Romanian Communist Party.

Lately, Sorin Oprescu has started to show interest in the party’s presidency. It caused a great restlessness to Mircea Geoana, who knows that he will remain the party’s President as long as there will not be an important competitor. Sorin Oprescu is such a competitor. Ion Iliescu is held apart by the harassments from the Military Prosecutor’s Office. Adrian Nastase still has some unfinished business with NAD (the National Anti-corruption Directorate). Both Ion Iliescu and Adrian Nastase are victims of the abuses of the institutions controlled by Traian Basescu. SDP is to support Traian Basescu during the Presidential elections.