I was at the Academy’s library on Wednesday night. Traian Basescu had just passed on the Dacia Boulevard... I was at the Academy’s library on Wednesday night. Traian Basescu had just passed on the Dacia Boulevard. The whistle of the nervous policeman that appears in the intersection only when the President passes by, the sound of the sirens, and the voices of the secret service officers that offer him more protection than the USA President usually gets made us, the people who wanted to read inside the library, flinch. We were a lot calmer half a second later. We all knew what was going on. Then, I received an SMS that made me get out in the lobby: Mr. Cristoiu, can you go live on the phone after the statement of Traian Basescu? I had understood that the President was about to make an official statement at Cotroceni. “I can!”, I answered. If the President makes an official statement for the nation, it must be something very important.

Something like the fact that the Ukrainian President, Victor Iuscenko, transformed the Snakes’ Island into a special economical area of Ukraine. Or like the fact that the relations with the Moldavian Republic are getting worse by the day, or about the collapse of the national currency, about the increase in the prices in Romania. I listened to the President’s statement. I didn’t comment it live afterwards. It would have been useless. The President had taken care of the Norica Nicolai case again. He didn’t do it to tell us that he realized he had broken the Constitution by refusing to sign the naming decree, neither to end the scandal that didn’t bring anything good to anyone, but to mention again the accusations against the liberal senator.

On the 11th of January 2008, live on TV, Traian Basescu stated: “In 1987, Mrs. Norica Nicolai (former Mrs. Clinci), prosecutor at the Oltenita local Prosecutor’s offic