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President Iohannis - central axis of political stage which he will dominate in 2016 together with Premier Ciolos
The Iohannis-Ciolos duo will dominate the political stage in 2016 and the presidential model will influence both the government and the “the way in which relations of power will re-settle in the most important parties in Romania,” is one of the conclusions reached by the Infopolitic study “How will public space change in election year 2016?”.
According to the source, “conflictual type rhetoric consecrated by Traian Basescu will no longer dominate in 2016, even though it will not disappear for good.”
Infopolitic says that Iohannis built the image of a “different president”, in opposition with the “playing president” as former president Traian Basescu called himself.
According to the study, Klaus Iohannis has accumulated power systematically, but compared to Traian Basescu, “he does not have an approach of media domination neither does he promote the image of a total control”, the present president representing the “model of Power without Opposition.”
The Infopolitic explanation is that president Iohannis chose to maintain at Cotroceni Palace the same power control strategy by “dividing it”, which made him successful as Sibiu mayor.
President Iohannis’ stake is in the opinion of Infopolitic, to remain the central axis of the political stage, “the pole around which the other actors gravitate.”
As it is an election year, the people from Infopolitic do not exclude the possibility that president Iohannis may try to give liberal party - PNL “an ideological and election push”, becoming more active in government activity and assuming a more pronounced political role, so that the Iohannis-Ciolos duo could dominate the political stage.
As for the Ciolos government, the study shows that the installation of this cabinet of technocrats comes on the background of social conflicts, which does not include just events that followed the tragedy from Colectiv, which was “just a spark in a much bigger fire,” because the Romanian society has been divided for many years.
The study analyses at the same time the fact that 2016 is the first after the last 10 years when former president Basescu is no longer the main political actor. Infopolitic estimates that, although the former president will no longer be the main political actor, he will be “one of most aggressive voices in the campaign stage,” which might lead to the reactivation of a part of his electors.