Either its leaders are aware of it or not, CDR 2000 really risks remaining outside the Parliament. If so, it will surely be a negative fact, even for the today's adversaries of the Convention. The poll made public on Sunday and realized by three of the most credible polling institutions fell like a bomb in the middle of the Convention. If, until recently, the percentages, situated at the limit of the necessary 10%, were arrogantly rejected by CDR 2000 leaders (the Romanian Democratic Convention) who motivated it with the lack of credibility of the coordinating institute, the data made public the day before yesterday let little space for credibility interpretation. If the CDR leaders are going to contest this poll too, then the next month elections have all chances to be lost by the political formation who have embodied the anticommunist fight for millions of Romanians, be it only for the reason that the members of the Convention have not realized yet that they are half down. The last weeks were, indeed, very rich in polls. Institutes with pretentious names and with the general quarters in a postal box or more credible ones offered the public opinion contradictory figures, determining the well intentioned journalists to ignore them all in order to avoid any trap. But the common initiative of the Urban and Regional Sociology Center (CURS), the Romanian Polling Institute (IRSOP) and Metro Media, three of the most credible institutions in the field take a measure that could reestablish, in general terms, the credibility of a professional poll. This is quite possible that, at a certain point in time, a certain polling institute commit the sin and, for a more or less important sum of money, make a little quality concession. But to suppose three rival institutes out of four, five at the most, credible ones in Romania agree to make together a political compromise, this is al