Armand Gosu on the pessimism ahead of the Romanian elections

On November 30 Romania elects a new parliament. In the weekly Revista 22, Armand Gosu is pessimistic about the outcome. "We lack dreams - or to be more precise - the vision of a Romania that looks different to today's Romania, with its political class made up of a symbiosis of former and current secret service agents and members of the communist nomenklatura. The vision of a Romania in which all citizens are equal before the law, and in which those who lead a bank into bankruptcy don't get off scot-free. ... But voters may have lost all hope. They have become as cynical and egoistic as the political class. ... It's obvious that the current political class has exhausted its potential. The greatest accomplishment of the generation of politicians that was active during the transformation was that it didn't make any major mistakes that blocked the path to the West. Under these conditions Nato and the EU were determined to integrate Romania. Now things have become more complicated. Now there is talk of a long process which will see the true modernisation of the country, and for which this political elite lacks both the vision and the ability to make that vision a reality. It is a weary generation that has wasted all its opportunities."

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