In the minds of some PSD strategists a new idea has recently been born: why wait until next year with the general elections, since we know exactly that we will govern further with the Liberals? Why not have an early election in the autumn? What’s the point of eroding ourselves in government only to come back a year and a half later but with a predictably lower score?
If they hold elections on schedule, i.e. in the fall of next year, the PSD-PNL coalition will have to go through another winter, with inflation further reducing purchasing power, and the people who will have to pay for all of this will be primarily the PSDists themselves. They are preparing, led by Marcel Ciolacu, to take over as prime minister after the rotation. Finally, there would be one more point of argument on holding early elections: why would the PSD and PNL let an extremist party like AUR eat into their electorate?
In passing, the PSD would have only and only to gain. It would preserve its good score in the polls, it would negotiate with the Liberals to share the ministries from positions of superiority in the future coalition and Marcel Ciolacu would enter the government as a legitimate prime minister,
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