How can Adrian Nastase, a die-hard pro-European, handle the legacy left by Ion Iliescu to his party? While Adrian Nastase was negotiating with the EU officials and was trying to attract a very large number of RICOP and SAPARD funds, the Premier's men from the Hunedoara county were talking about replacing Mihai Eminescu's statue in Deva wiht that of Petru Groza, the head of the first communist government. A few days before this happened, Nastase was explaining the reforming plans of his government to the EU high officials, while Ion Iliescu, who was visiting Focsani, was raging against the world financial institutions. The subconscious makes us wonder what can be the connection between two persons who are so different. We should notice that Adrian Nastase is a politician who has been extremely patient as far as his political career is concerned. He didn't provoke any crisis within his party, even if he could have plenty of supporters, he kept silent when anybody else would have protested against the chiefs and he preferred not to comment when, as a parliamentarian of the Europe Council, he had to turn into occidental statements the Siberian declarations of his superior. But at present he has got a well-deserved reward for his patience: he is the head of the government and the leader of the most important Romanian party. For the time being, nothing can make us doubt as to his pro-European views. On the contrary, we should be inclined to say that he is a die-hard European. However, PDSR remains a party of communist origin. Its electorate and usual members make up an amorphous mass containing people belonging to various categories, who all long for the times when the State was in charge of everything. If he wants to have a future as politician, Nastase has to fight against his own electorate and his own party. It seems that the fight with his own electorate has already s