The PSD will choose a new boss in the fall, according to information so far, but it is not excluded that the elections are postponed for next year. The first chance has the current interim chief of the formation, Sorin Grindeanu, who is considered close to the former leadership.
According to USR and PNL, and social democrats are expected to reform Mediafax / Alexandru Dobre
According to the USR, which in the tip of the formation on Dominic Fritz, and PNL, who is going to place Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan in July, and PSD would organize a Congress in the fall for installing a new management team, with a new president. Currently, the formation is led by the interim by Sorin Grindeanu, but he has not yet announced his candidacy.
Although it was asked to reform the party both inside and from the electorate, the social-democrats take small steps in this regard. Both candidates and the date on which the Congress were to be organized, it is possible to delay more than the expectations of the present. So far, Sorin Grindeanu, Daniel Băluță and Victor Negrescu have been publicly vehiculated as candidates, but they all denied that they are thinking of a candidacy.
Why does PSD need
The political scientist George Jiglău emphasizes that the leader with the highest control power in the party was Liviu Dragnea. Now, the PSD needs organization in the territory, he considers it.
“He needs a kind of rediscovery of those strengths he had and started to lose. Namely the organization in the territory. That seems to me to cost him the best in the elections that have been in the fall (…) I think the PSD went best when he had either a person who could control the territory very well, or a person who worked with someone who controls the territory well, that is, the Nastase-Hrebenciuc-Cozâmca period or the period with Dragnea ”.
“It is also this part of identity, let’s say ideologically, so more pompous, which must be rethought or re -base after this front around gold has appeared. Because the PSD I think is the party that had the most to suffer from the appearance of gold, as it was somewhat expected. That is, gold appeared in a very conservative area, but that area was somewhat assimilated to the PSD. (…) As a party you have two variants, in principle. Either you go after that extreme and try to annihilate that extreme and recover those votes, but obviously it makes you as a whole to be more extremist from this point of view, or you differentiate and go further to the center, you somehow and you leave that extreme party to make your head, but you do not”, Says the analyst.
According to Jiglǎu, with Ciolacu in the forehead, PSD went to a more moderate area, especially when collaborating with PNL, but the former leader changed the maca on the last hundred meters in last year’s electoral season. The political scientist claims that he does not see possible an extreme transformation of the PSD into a more progressive party:
“The PSD did not know what to do. It remained in a position in which it was not progressive to the end, it was not a conservative of gold type to the end. (…) It seems to me that PSD needs at the moment to restore this asset of organization in the territory and then to have a certain capacity, And, equally, to move in a more social-democratic area, more modern, but in such a way as not to antagonize (…) it takes something to differentiate them more clearly from the extremist side of Romanian conservatism and which is now well occupied, and at the same time to differentiate them.
Sorin Grindeanu, first chance at PSD presidency
Sorin Grindeanu, freshly installed at the management of the Chamber of Deputies, a position held in the past and other PSD leaders, leaves with the first chance from the position of interim chief of the party. However, it has a bushy past, both in terms of functions in the party and at the state level, as well as in the controversies coming with them. He led the government that promoted GEO 13, which brought to the street thousands of people, fell the censorship motion voted in Parliament by his own party, after Grindeanu refused to resign at Liviu Dragnea’s request.
Last but not least, he said as a basic man of former President Marcel Ciolacu, his name also appeared in the Nordis scandal. However, analysts point out that it does not seem to have competition at the PSD tip:
“E.He had the association from the Dragnea period, but he was broken by Dragnea, if we remember the censorship motion. But I do not think that his image is more problematic than others from the PSD. Now there are two angles to look at. Once the sympathy, which he has or does not have in his own party and among the PSD electorate, and then is the sympathy that or not outside this electorate area that sympathizes the PSD. I do not think there is a PSD-ist who at this time will attract many Romanians who did not sympathize with the PSD ”.
Political counselor Adrian Zăbavă is of the opinion that “Sorin Grindeanu at the PSD presidency today seems to be a continuation of what has happened so far, during Ciolacu’s period. ”
“Sorin Grindeanu, being the second man in the party, during the period when Marcel Ciolacu was PSD president, a president who divided the power quite a lot with the others in the leadership of the party, not to forget, that did it and to remain in the fore PSD. says the analyst.
“At the moment, regarding the entry into government, by what has been able to negotiate, I think it is in the pole position of this competition (..) It’s a competition in which much more power and influence networks matter”, He points out.
