Romania will at last have a government and government contracts will be awarded again

Shortly after Kimberly Gilfoyle had dinner with the leader of the Romanian Social Democratic Party (PSD), but that was purely a coincidence, the PSD brought down Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan who had refused to buy the expensive American gas.

It did so by leaving the governing coalition which President Dan had formed in order to keep the nationalist/pro-peace AUR out of office. That, he thought, was required to defend democracy. 

Today it looks as if a new government of technocrats plus PSD will be formed.

I liked this observation by Sorin Ionita today:

'The Niculescu-Neacşu government will manage the budget with selective prudence and will tell Brussels everything they want to hear, while the public space will be occupied by cultural wars transplanted, to a large extent, from the MAGA repertoire. Some will keep us busy with national values ​​and sovereignty, while others will share contracts and subsidies, including with the former. In this regard, PSD and AUR will complement each other perfectly while they will always deny that they are forming a coalition.'

In fact an alliance formal or informal between PSD and AUR makes perfect sense since in the 1990s the predecessor to PSD was the anti-American party. There's nothing remotely socialist about the PSD, that party of wicked multi-millionaires, except for the fact that they do things for the poorer half of the population in order to get returned to office (which, if you think about it, is all that parties on the left are supposed to do). 

We are so used in Western Europe to parties on the left being liberals and therefore spending their time working against the interests of the working class that we forget this. The one redeeming feature the PSD has is that it has no trace of liberalism.