Elena Lasconi could lose the support of USR members, at least this is one of the scenarios circulating after, on Friday evening, the head of the USR made a comment on Nicușor Dan who makes big waves. “Comparison is not as moved as it seems at first sight”, Politicologist Cristian Pârvulescu believes.
Elena Lasconi upset more USR members with her photo statements: Mediafax
A few hours after Elena Lasconi said about Nicușor Dan that “It resembles the mirage of another independent who wants to save us”, With reference to Călin Georgescu, adding that he does not know what the mayor of the capital was thinking when he decided to run for the presidential elections, among the USR members, but also of the former members, voices that criticize her and, more , announces that I no longer support it. There is even the possibility of the possibility that Monday, February 10, 2025, when the USR leadership meets within the National Bureau, to discuss the withdrawal of its candidacy for the May 4 elections.
The political scientist Cristian Pârvulescu believes that the party cannot afford to oblige its president, “Which was legitimately chosen and that came in a difficult time,” To give up the candidacy because of an independent candidate, a former USR member, who left the party. Moreover, the political scientist considers that Elena Lasconi’s statement is not “as moved” as it seems.
“The comparison he made with Călin Georgescu is not as moved as it seems at first sight. She was referring on the one hand to the independent stature of Nicușor Dan, but also to his intentions. Now, Mrs. Lasconi is also ambiguous regarding the cancellation of the elections, but her reign is at least constant. There is an ambiguity that from the beginning, for reasons we can understand, promoted. Mr. Nicușor Dan had no doubt about justice. In the meantime, it has very serious doubts. Well, yes, it is the language of Simion, of Călin Georgescu, those who accuse a coup. It has not reached the coup of Nicușor Dan, but still, it seems to abandon the liberal electorate for the far-right electorate, because its electoral consultants told him that the Romanians are extremely right ”said Pârvulescu, for “Adevărul”.
Because the mission of Elena Lasconi for the 4th race will be much more difficult than the one in the elections of last autumn, the head of the USR is trying to address the Liberal Electorate in the USR area, forgotten lately. She became very offensive with Nicușor Dan because she is the main counter-candidate she has now.
“However, Lasconi, in the analysis he did, who was quite coherent, was right. Namely, at the moment not all the candidates are known and, of course, no one disputes that Nicușor Dan can be an important candidate, he can be a candidate who takes the votes of Mrs. Lasconi, but on the other hand he does not have a party And he cannot host a party that he simply left in 2018, left, because he had ideological differences in relation to the liberal orientation of the party ”, added Pârvulescu.
Elena Lasconi’s statements come to give water to those colleagues from USR who “They were not very happy to see Mrs. Lasconi becoming president” And who could give him the contest of Nicușor Dan, “Not because he would become a more prominent candidate, but because they want to recover the power positions they had lost with the arrival of Elena Lasconi ”, the political science pointed out. The USRs who now support the mayor of the capital would not have beliefs about Nicușor Dan’s candidacy, “Rather as much interests on the party line”said Pârvulescu.
“The surveys now measure smoke”
In the sensitive subject of the candidates of Nicușor Dan and Elena Lasconi on the same political corridor, arguments regarding the positioning in polls have been brought, and according to these polls Nicușor Dan would be better placed. However, the polls are not, said the political scientist, very relevant at this time, but could be placed in the area of manipulations.
“The surveys now measure smoke, and the wind blows and dispel it quickly. (…) They can measure moods, that’s yes, but … this is a form of coarse manipulation. It is a whole battle we are witnessing, in which the different groups that want to influence the public opinion have different polls that give us different values. I remember that no opinion poll in the past, not in the first place, not even in second place, so … “said Pârvulescu.
At this time, the political scientist also pointed out, Nicușor Dan is interested in presenting surveys that are favorable to him, but at the same time there are also polls that show that Bucharest people want him and do not wish him president, “Which shows us that it is a whole battle.” “I do not say that Nicușor Dan cannot have a chance, but at this moment no one can know who really has a chance, which is the corridor that will be the strongest, because we do not know which candidates, I do not know how The parties are reported and so on ”explained Cristian Pârvulescu.
It remains interesting to see how USR members will report to the created situation, if they decide to abandon Elena Lasconi and join their former leader. At the presidential elections of 4 the useful vote may not work, the political scientist says, and this can be valid for both Elena Lasconi and Nicușor Dan and able to radically change things.
“Nicușor Dan can to get votes from far -right voters, who have sensitivities, which are in the area of the extreme right and who will not have a candidate to support. But it is not certain that he will take many votes in the area and I do not know how much he wants to compromise and compromise his image by entering the area, culturally. Please, anything is possible ”concluded the political scientist.
