Second rate, but in a single round

It would be a mistake to accept that the nation is unfaithful, that it keeps choosing new political colors for the presidents' sheets, because in these 25 years it only had one love - PSD -, never did another political party get the majority, and the electoral map that we published in BURSA on Friday predicts that we haven't exactly changed our inclination.

There are however two differences from what happened in the previous local elections, one is only probable, the other one is uncertain.

Some analysts have predicted the lowest voter turnover in this period of democracy, and they dared to day that only about 40% of the voters would show up.

You know what it's like with the glass - if it's not full, it's empty and if it's 60%, then, like Adrian Năstase used to say when he had no response, "We have a problem", but we know what that problem is: voter absenteeism is another kind of vote, it is a vote of reprehension and it wants to say that the political system can not be influenced by voters, so it is pointless to participate in what is charade, because doing so only validates it.

The people's lack of interest in the elections expresses this accusation, that the political system has no connection to them whatsoever, and that it isn't trying any connection to the needs of the electorate, it just pretends to have, just like this switch from two election rounds to one which was first promoted by liberals when it worked for them, only for them to then turn around and claim it was "undemocratic" (truth be told, the going back and forth between one and two rounds has been around for a long time, it is related to PDL and Traian Băsescu, but it has nothing to do with the level of political relevance).

The disgust with politics is also old news, but if the estimates of the harshest analysts are confirmed, then it is going to reach a never before seen level, because it has never before reached 53%; and if it reaches 60%, then we don't exactly know what we mean by "democracy", because the people is no longer exercising its power, and the people that are elected no longer represent the majority.

Only the majority of the minority that voted for them.

If this keep up, in a few years, one guy working a week will be coming in to decide who the 3180 mayors are going to be, while the rest of us will sit at home because it doesn't matter anyway.

A certain change is the quality of the candidates' political personalities: they are all second rate, and you wouldn't have anyone to elect even if the elections had ten rounds.

Gabriela Vrânceanu Firea, who is considered as having no serious rival for the Mayoralty of Bucharest is a major personality ... on TV; Robert Turcescu, the same; Nicuşor Dan, first hand mathematician, nothing personal; Cătălin Predoiu, a second rate Mugur Isărescu; and the other anonymous candidates, of which Adrian Severin and Daniel Barbu stand out, with no odds of winning at all.

The risk when going into a second-hand store is wasting your time and coming out the same way you came in.

It's no that "first rate" politicians are any better, but at least you can understand why they're running, because they have been around for a while. The problem with those who "have been around for a while" is that they've been driven away by the National Anti-Corruption Department, just like the fox scares away the hens, so the parties themselves had to choose their own candidates from among the survivors of that "primary" selection.

If we are going to get to live the times when someone actually decides who is going to be a mayor, then that is going to be the National Anti-Corruption Department (DNA).

Of course, in tandem with the Romanian Intelligence Service.

To keep the tradition, that's where the graft will be paid - so long DNA!