The SDP (the Social Democratic Party) Extraordinary Congress is two days away from now. As expected, the newspapers and TV stations are more than preoccupied with this event. Of course, they also have to take into consideration the soap operas directed by Traian Basescu. The SDP Congress should have taken place in April 2007. Why did the members of the party settle for a Congress on the 10th of December, five months before the normal deadline? This is a normal question, because such a reunion involves a huge amount of energy, talent and money: extraordinary county conferences, central suffocating meetings, and the mobilization of the members. I am yet to see an article to give a complete or incomplete answer for this question. The absence of an answer for the question "Why a SDP extraordinary Congress?" isn’t caused by the schizophrenic hostility of the press towards SDP. One cannot find a justification of the extraordinary Congress in the newspapers, because there is no justification. The SDP leaders say the reunion is made in order to have new elections. Was it really necessary? No way. A party decides to organize an extraordinary Congress if:

1) it obtains a disastrous result after the Parliamentary, Presidential, local or Euro-parliamentary elections.

The shacking produced by the result makes the supporters ask for drastic measures and for another leading board able to make them believe in a very short period in the Opposition.

The recent exam justifies the agitation for the leading positions and makes this agitation consistent. They all want to win. The leaders try to convince all the other members that the result was an exception and that the present leading board can still bring success. The adversaries use the result of the elections as a reason for the leading board to resign.

As far as everybody knows, there hasn’t been any poll