One of the involuntarily honest phrases that Klaus Iohannis said, but which he may not recognize later, as the phrase goes today failed state at the expense of campaigning politicians.
After long absences from the public space and after a chronic lack of representative messages, Klaus Iohannis made a correct gesture, which corresponds not only to the attributes of the presidential office, but also to the responsibility that accompanies it: he went down to the city damaged by a series of negative events, all of which revealed the dysfunctionality of the state.
In the deaths on May 2, the Police were at fault; in the dramatic death of the mother from Botoșani, the health system showed its dysfunctionality; in the Crevedia explosion, none of the institutional links worked to protect people.
Moreover, in all these cases the state functioned to shelter the aggressors/perpetrators, not to provide the victims with minimal protection.
Despite the correctness of the gesture, however, President Klaus Iohannis self-sabotaged or, better said, sabotaged the message that the city needed to get out of the pressure of a chronic crisis, generating social anxiety.
The institutions worked this time, said the president, the comparison being with Colectiv. He continued: There is no need for resignations, the failed state is only part of the lexicon of some politicians in the electoral rush.
Now, when the president says this a few days after these chain tragedies, which are not accidents and unfortunate coincidences, but institutional collapses, it means that it is more important for the state to protect a government and a few ministers, a local politician with feudal ambitions, a system which, if the president is right and the institutions have done their job, has a completely different purpose than that of protecting the common good, including the safety of citizens.
The expected intervention of the president was more of an assurance for the Government and the politicians in power, than an assurance to the citizens that all the political and institutional decision-makers are working day and night so that all the conditions that made possible May 2, Crevedia and Botoșani it no longer exists.
In an interview given Spot media since last year, political analyst Radu Magdin warned that a president reached the status of lame ducki.e. without influence and no longer counting for the system, which is already reorienting towards potential candidates, is detrimental to the country.
But Klaus Iohannis does even more and washes his hands of any joint responsibility he has with the governments to which he transfers real, not symbolic, executive power, despite the fact that they are the governments he made and dismantled with direct participation , if we remember the fallout at the PNL congress in which Ludovic Orban was removed, so that the party would be led by Florin Cîțu.
For Klaus Iohannis, there is no need for any resignation from the system. Of course, analysis is required, no less than 11 institutions plus one have been assigned to investigate the Crevedia case, but the failed state that Klaus Iohannis once named is now working so that the Government is not damaged.
Andrei Pleșu said in one of his memorable texts that a perfectly practiced vice can be taken as a virtue: this is how the state appears which, in a flawed way, functions outside of the common good.
More serious, however, is the fact that the president did not consider the sanctioning of Victor Ponta, brought into the Government to do what Prime Minister Ciolacu cannot do openly, namely bridge with the AUR and with the electorate kept marginal and fed with alarmist theories and ultra-nationalist scenarios, such as “The European Union sends us huge bills, to treat our patients lightly, leaving the seriously ill to die in Romania”.
As president, I don’t think more could be done. The president is only formally executive, the governments do things in practice. And then we can ask whether governments in practice could have done more. It remains a discussion that can be had. What I did as president was to fight in Brussels for money, and let me remind you that I obtained 80 billion euros for Romania, part of it in regular funds, part of it in the so-called PNRR, which is still being discussed, they negotiate, change, to solve for example this problem.
Klaus Iohannis, President of Romania
(Protesters can be heard booing him louder and louder in the background)
2023-08-29 21:00:00
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