On Friday, the 18th of July 2008, when all the people were trying to get out of Bucharest for the weekend, Traian Băsescu thought he should call for a press conference. The reason: he had sent to the Parliament the amendments for the Law no. 10 in 2001. On Friday, the 18th of July 2008, when all the people were trying to get out of Bucharest for the weekend, Traian Băsescu thought he should call for a press conference.
The reason for this gesture was presented by Mr. President himself: he had sent to the Parliament the amendments for the Law no. 10 in 2001, and knowing that "the law has a very big impact on both the tenants and the owners," he considered that, apart from a simple request for a review and a Press statement, he had an obligation to give "some explanations". The explanations of the gesture of sending back the amendments for the law are similar to all the public interventions of Traian Băsescu.
We're talking about the habit to really falsify the realities, starting from the premise that few know the truth and those who know it, his people, will applaud him until their hands will get red.
By using his well-known style of lying in front of all people, Traian Băsescu has labeled the amendments for the Law as a new nationalization process.
The changes were supposed to counter an illegality: the nationalization of the former tenants who became legal owners after buying the respective properties.
The journalists and the politicians started to wonder about Traian Băsescu’s intentions.
Some saw the intervention as a gesture of support for the property Mafia.
Others have identified it as an electoral maneuver.
It may be a supporting gesture for the Mafia.
But not an electoral maneuver.
Because the parties - including PD-L - have argued that the law took into account an unquestioned
