The defeat of Vasile Blaga in Bucharest together with the defeat the PD-L (Democrat-Liberal Party) has suffered in the local elections, as well as Ion Iliescu's comeback after last Sunday's scrutiny are actually effecting from the strategies mastered by the President of Romania Traian Basescu, the main brand of the PD-L. The active interference of the latter party's master in the electoral campaign of the presidential party has made Vasile Blaga's failure be perceived as the defeat of Traian Basescu. The failing moves made by the main strategist in the PD-L have helped the left win in Bucharest, just as they have made way for the comeback of Ion Iliescu and his men to the main structures of power and influence in Romania. We can even say the President has dropped brick after brick: he ordered that Vasile Blaga should be the PD-L candidate, he praised a general mayor of Bucharest as disastrous as Adriean Videan, he instigated the candidates, making the campaign aggressive an demonizing the adversaries. (...) "Divide et impera" plan has failed While boasting about the need to reform the political class, President Basescu encouraged the dissident wings inside the main parties so that he would make a powerful presidential party to govern alone or, in the worst case, together with the 'exorcised' adversaries. (...) As far as the relations with the PNL (National Liberal Party) are concerned, after the half-success consisting in the making of the PD-L by attracting a large number of Liberal dissidents, Traian Basescu counted on the fact that Calin Popescu Tariceanu's party was too weakened to resist the Democrats. He hoped the common war focused on the demonization of the PM would in time weaken the PNL even more so that the party would share the fate of the National Christian-Democrat Party. Although he would constantly claim that after the PM got the sack a collaboration between the PD-L and the PNL would become possible, the head of state didn't show a preference for a certain leader as choice. The fact that he expressed appreciation for Ludovic Orban's electoral campaign after the Liberal was defeated in Bucharest was taken for a sly attempt to direct the votes of the Liberals towards the Liberal-Democrats. But the Liberals' good results in the local elections are proving that the President's plans have failed. (...) (D.P.)