referen-doom

why i don't want a uninominal two-round system and why i am sick to my stomach of Romanian politics:

1.because i thought i was living in a REPRESENTATIVE democracy, and that implies i select a few people to mind state and local-level administration so that I wouldn't bother with it, and go about my daily affairs. i think it's obsolete and unbecoming to have two referenda a year. sadly enough, the one who called for both-the president- find no other way than being rough-and-tough with the opponents. it is more dramatic when it seems there is no plan B to the people answering NO to the president's question, nor for the case of low turnout. all in all, i fear that this will only be a consultative
activity, and the decision on the future electoral system (which only through a miracle will turn to law before the 2009 elections) will come down to political bargain. alas, nothing beats having people pay themselves for extracting their common opinion- takes the edge out of conducting an opinion poll and delivers into the hands of politicians *a more legitimate* baby.

2. i have little trust in the political opinions of my fellow citizens, who have been thrashed around by media means, and bombarded with a zillion paradoxes. they just don't have(for various complicated reasons) the maturity and clear reason to handpick their parliament. i wish politics wouldn't be such a prosperous business in Romania and that parties would not live under the think heavy cloud of corruption all the time. the process of uninominal selection leaves a lot of space and creates big incentives for rigging elections, mostly in the rural areas.

3. grim colours: let's contemplate who would be those "big, stable parties" worthy enough of manufactured majorities in the parliament. ups, they are both of social democrat denomination, hm, so i would have my left, and my other left.a bit disoriented? of course, there would be no chance for the invigoration of a Romanian right as feeble as it is now, not even by putting all the right parties in the same hat. no other parties would be encouraged to appear, thus no minority voices heard.

4. want to reform the political class? how about making it less profitable to be a politician (lower salaries, no free accommodation in Bucharest, no protocol vehicles, a lot more whistle blowing, what-have-you) so that those looking to make a fortune would not turn to the doors of political parties but go into business and have only capitalism on their minds.

good riddance, the dice are cast!