On Monday, the 18th of September 2006, the NLP leading board passed an Emergency Decree that radicalizes to the maximum the criteria for the judgment of the collaboration with the former Security.
A few weeks before, the former leader of Sorin Ovidiu Vantuâs party, the unfortunate Minister of Culture and Cults, Adrian Iorgulescu, asked for the dismissal of all the cultural personalities, together with Mihail Sadoveanu and George Enescu, simply because they didnât run into the mountains to fight with their bare hands against the communist regime.
As several journalists have correctly seen, the National Liberal Party led by Calin Popescu Tariceanu is making it hard for itself by the day.
The new position, because this is new in the mandate that started in December 2004, was taken on Friday, the 30th of March 2006, by the NLP Permanent Delegation. According to the statute, the Permanent Delegation is the partyâs leading board between the Congresses. However, such a crucial novelty in the NLP strategy cannot the result of the decision of a small group formed by members of the leading board. Only the Congress can take the full responsibility for the huge consequences on the partyâs destiny.
Seeing the attention that NLP pays to denouncing the communism, there is one question that comes to mind:
Who decided for assuming this goal in the name of the entire party? Was this decision the result of a thorough investigation of the positive and negative electoral consequences of a fight against a regime that went down 16 years ago? Or, is this decision a result of the blind and idiotic hatred of the current leading board towards Traian Basescu rather than a consequence of the past?
Denouncing communism and especially transforming it in an essential point of the political strategy was an indestructible attribute for NPCDP (the National P