The government program presented on Thursday by the AUR leaders at the Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry is more intelligently written than the primitive forms presented in the past by populists like Vadim Tudor (Romania Mare) or Dan Diaconescu, but just as toxic for democracy, anti-Western and dangerous for the rule of law. In essence, it looks like a collection of monstrosities culled from the ashes of Bolshevism, Legionnaireism and Communism, a synthesis of the political evil that has haunted Romania in recent decades, combined with ultra-populist measures and economic pseudo-solutions that have proved bankrupt.
Dan Diaconescu was dangling 20 thousand euros for every Romanian in 2012 if elected. Simion has realized that no one is going for pies in the sky anymore, so he comes up with something apparently more realistic: a gradual increase in the minimum wage over the next four years from 3000 lei to 5000 lei.
For voters who are disillusioned, frustrated, or disillusioned with the traditional parties, such ultra-populist, messianic, misleading offers have the capacity to seduce in times of great social unrest (economic crisis, health crisis, war at the border). When everything goes wrong, people throw themselves into extremes.
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