Liberals have won, but not the PNL

I can understand why there is infighting among liberals after losing the elections, but they shouldn't be upset, because in fact, the electorate has chosen liberalism.

Admittedly, liberalism without the PNL.

The victory is that of the liberalism of the PSD.

As proof, here's what PSD president Liviu Dragnea said after the victory of his party:

"I went to the Obor market, I looked for fish to buy. I started talking to the people who sold fish. And they told me they had carp from Spain, carassius from Italy, all there was to buy from Romania was just a few pitiful pikes. Everybody knows the fishing resources that this country has. I also thought of the energy bills. We pay our energy bills to a company that takes its profit elsewhere. That applies to natural gas and to the water providers in Bucharest as well. We should show love to Romanian capital as well. I want us to start eating our own domestic products, not low quality imports."

This is an authentic liberal speech.

The electoral platform of the PSD is liberal:

- cutting dividend taxes from 5%, to 0%;

- reducing the total costs paid by employers for salaries;

- cutting VAT from 20%, to 18% (0% for homes, 9% for advertising);

- cutting the number of taxes by half;

- support program for startups;

- cutting the turnover tax for microenterprises and raising the cap for the latter from 100,000 Euros to 500,000.

Etc.

We published them yesterday in BURSA, side by side with the proposals of the PNL, which overlap with them in places.

The document containing the PSD program is quite comprehensive, and Liviu Dragnea said, in a televised statement, that once this government program gets passed, it receives a legal status, meaning that infringing it can be challenged in court.

Liviu Dragnea has some personal experience when it comes to being convicted in court.

Even though Liviu Dragnea is the current symbol figure of the PSD, the electorate disregarded that conviction, (one of our readers mentioned in a comment posted on the "BURSA" website, that Dragnea was convicted for overseeing the monitoring of the votes in the Referendum for the removal of former president Traian Băsescu, in other words, for an action which is now being made official by the Cioloş government itself).

Citizens have appreciated the attitude of the PSD which showed a certain degree of independence from Brussels, just as they have punished the obedience towards the EU displayed by Dacian Cioloş, who the PNL led by Alina Gorghiu was using as a mascot.

Cioloş is the prime minister of president Klaus Iohannis.

In turn, Klaus Iohannis is "the Grivco prime-minister", created by Dan Voiculescu, through Crin Antonescu.

The electorate has rejected Cioloş.

Grivco himself rejected Cioloş, through Mihai Gâdea, in the "muddy" confrontation that took place in the studios of Antena 3, owned by Dan Voiculescu.

Klaus Iohannis was rebuked by his parents - I am not referring to Grivco, but to the electorate and especially to the so-called "Facebook party", which didn't mobilize at all.

A disaster for the PNL.

Alina Gorghiu resigned as president of the PNL.

Some liberals breathed a sigh of relief.

With all her personal charm, Alina Gorghiu barely won 20% of the electoral votes, in Sunday's parliamentary elections, while the charming Liviu Dragnea got over 45%, for the PSD.

Still, the electoral confrontation was not decided on looks, on charisma or criminal convictions, but on the nationalism criterion.

During his year as a prime-minister, Dacian Cioloş has offered grants to foreign owned companies, but not a single Romanian owned company received the same; his finance minister Anca Dragu, conceded to the Austrian owned Raiffeisen Bank, when faced with the threat publicly formulated by the bank, that it would sue the Romanian state, because of the passing of the law of giving in payment and of the law of CHF-loan conversion (of which the latter was sent by prime-minister Cioloş to the Constitutional Court, which may invalidate it).

In his visit in Romania, sponsored by Raiffeisen Bank, in a conference organized by Anca Dragu's Ministry of Finance, German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble stated that the issue of the conflict between foreign and domestic investors should not be discussed.

He was aware of the situation.

In fact the entire scandal between the banking system and their CHF borrowers was all about the conflict between foreigners and nationals, where the banking system is owned by foreigners, and borrowers are domestic.

Paradoxically, the initiation and the backing of the laws of giving in payment and conversion comes from liberal Daniel Zamfir, but the PNL showed an internal inconsistency, and ruined its popularity among voters, through the support they gave Cioloş.

In order not to compromise its "European allure", the PSD gave the nationalist slogans to the PRU ("Partidul România Unită" ed. note: "United Romania Party") led by Sebastian Ghiţă (a friend of Victor Ponta), who said: "Romanian capital is constantly being murdered."

The electorate voted in favor of distancing itself from the obedient attitude towards foreigners.

This is a vote encouraged by Brexit, by Donald Trump's victory in the elections and by the grievances of the regular people in Southern Europe, especially in Greece.

Unavoidably, the implicit notion of rejecting the European Union, illustrated by the results of Sunday's elections, is pushing us under the Russian sign, which is constantly being invoked as a bugaboo (which is not necessarily inaccurate).

But being "RIGHT" is not something that inherently exists.

Being right only occurs through action.

And voters, it is said, are always right.