An X-ray of Boc’s argument with Băsescu. A Dopey Story

An X-ray of Boc’s argument with Băsescu. A Dopey Story

Although I was awake, I wasn't awoke: I rubbed my eyes trying to understand how the world turned upside-down. As, one night before, I had left Emil Boc as a devoted Băsescu's witness and I found him in the morning more heretical than Călin Popescu Tăriceanu . I couldn't possible understand how Emil Boc, prime-minister and devoted servant, could have paid a visit to his boss carrying only a tiny tray. My impression was that the cut targeted the fleshly ones, meaning Berceanu, Videanu and Blaga. Admittedly, Boc's menu is far from fat-free, but I was sure that Mr. Vlădescu was a member of Traian Băsescu' stock farm.

• It's hard for me to speak about the Băsescu-Boc' "split", after all the years when the latter proved to be only a horn blown by the first. Mr. Boc started out as an intelligent and witty man as a Deputy, but he has constantly involuted due to the closeness to Traian Băsescu, till the total loss of his identity. For a so-called "split" to be real, there needs to be a minimum balance between the two. You don't split from a door mat, you split the door mat apart.

I wondered if I dealt with a vaudeville acted by Mr. Băsescu who was trying to show the world that Emil Boc had stopped coming to heel. That he had turned into a dangerously free prime-minister. A gesture that could prove that Băsescu's Government - a government so impotent, that even the extremist believers do not fall for it anymore - is, from now on, Boc's government.

A well known manoeuvre of passing the buck. Thus, the only one benefiting from the ‟split" is Mr. Băsescu: there it is, I wanted to reshuffle the Government, indeed I wanted to restructure it fully, but Boc said no. The problem is that, since he stepped out of the Victoria Palace, Mr. Boc played on the Dopey's part afore Traian Băsescu: how could one make him now the Titan in charge with blocking the reform of the Government?

• I don't believe that Mr. Boc stepped out yesterday of the autistic behaviour he got us used to. He is not the feisty type. Not with the boss. So how did he argued with Mr. Băsescu? On the quiet, of course?! I simply believe that he played the fool, graciously clashing against the wishes of the president (who wanted a Government BVB-free), of Elena Udrea (quite anxious to sack the Government she is a member of, but that isn't, oh why, his own) and of the sturdy Blaga-Videanu-Berceanu.

He didn't want to fall out of anybody's favour: Traian Băsescu, the BVB triumvirate either, and he finally made a compromise. If, in the end, he was forced to sack Adriean Videanu and Radu Berceanu, although in the morning he came forward with a tiny ‟little reshuffle", he did it with serenity, sending them to take care of the Party. He hit himself like a ball against the ball cushion of the DLP, Udrea, Blaga. He experienced a continuous swing to Băsescu, to the Government, to the party and to the Parliament, but, in the end, the premier's seat remained stuck to his backside.

And this is the only yesterday's news: Romania has the same prime-minister, the same president. Commutations inside the party and the split between the sides concern them and only them, the wide audience does not give a damn. I had seen this movie before: members of the Peasants Party did the same, sharing the nothingness within the framework of a party that had become one grain of rice.

• Ialomiţeanu, Tabără, Botiş, Boagiu, Vreme and Ariton are Ministers starting with Thursday. Come now, the reform did take place! Hardly had I found about Dumitru from the Agriculture, that… Can't you see how difficult it will be to tell the magnificent six from each other?!

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