Boss, sit down because I've got news that'll make you cry with laughter, but also make you pull your hair out! On June 9th, Prime Minister-designate Eugen Tomac gathered the parties around the table – guess what? – to see if they could form a government without it being full of barons.
And then, Remus Pricopie, that rector from SNSPA, and Kelemen Hunor, the head of UDMR, jumped right in. Pricopie immediately said that a government with only technocrats, without politicians, is impossible. "In a democracy, politics is done by politicians," he wrote on Facebook.
And he explained: if you bring in a new team, you have to change about 500 positions – ministers, secretaries of state, prefects – and that means delays, blockages, and chaos. Exactly what we have now, but with a different face. Pricopie made a distinction between a "technical" government – detached from parties – and a "technocratized" one, with an independent prime minister but with political support.
He proposed a "political armistice," with a prime minister with authority, a partially technocratized government, continuity on critical files, and change where competence is needed. How does that sound, bro? Like a recipe for sarmale that everyone knows, but nobody makes.
And Hunor, the UDMR leader, said on Tuesday, after talks with Tomac, that he doesn't guarantee parliamentary support. He said a government without a clear majority has slim chances and it's hard to vote for a cabinet he's not part of. He also criticized the idea of an executive that's politically led but with many unaffiliated members – like, what, man, is it a cardboard government?
Hunor said they'll decide after seeing the list of ministers and the program. And so, bro, the politicians are scared to lose the gravy train! As if we, the common folk, live like in Bavaria, not like in Teleorman, a barren county where half the population has left.
In Romania, politics is like in Hunedoara: Corvin Castle is collapsing, but they're forming a government. I, for one, ain't buying this story. In the meantime, I'm going to tell Mioara not to hope for a vacation in Antalya, because maybe a political armistice will catch us and we'll be left without money for shawarma.
