Probably "reform" has been the most used word for the last nine years. Not accidentally, because the word is designating what each of the post-Decmber governments should have done. Each of them has tried to solve the problem only partly or not at all. The latest days some events have occurred which could make us believe the much expected reform is going to happen. Not necessarily for patriotic reasons or for the premier's spirit of sacrifice, but for completely different causes. First of all, let' make clear why we have got to a point where it is almost impossible to achieve reform. To make an unpopular action, which is requiring massive losses of electoral capital, a compensation is necessary. The only one compensation which could be is gaining economic power, if not, more directly, gaining the money for campaigns, which is distributing reform benefits deriving from privatizations, commissions, and so on. That's what happened in all Eastern European countries that completed the most difficult part of reform (Czech Rep, Hungary, Poland). In these countries, after center-right coalitions won the 1990 elections, left-wing coalitions won the next elections. Those center-right coalitions achieved the reform almost completely, even at the risk of losing elections, but with the benefit of providing the economic influence. Despite losing elections, the right wing's gains were, on the one hand, the economic influence and on the other, due to economic development, it created the basis for the middle class, a class which, anywhere in the world, is providing the electoral basis for center-right parties and which will allow them to get back to ruling power. The most recent elections - in Hungary, where the right wing got the ruling power back - prove the estimations made a few years ago were correct. What happened in Romania? The right wing wining the 1990 elections, like in Bul