Sorin Grindeanu shouts wherever he can: Bolojan should leave and everything will be resolved. Mihai Gâdea, at Antena 3, does the same thing night after night. Opinion articles appear announcing that the magic has ended, and people are bored or want the crisis to be resolved, anyway.
The most palpable evidence that Bolojan must leave is the decrease in his popularity and that of the PNL, as shown in several opinion polls published in recent days.
Moreover, many analysts and political commentators have explained in these days that Ilie Bolojan’s stay at the Victoria Palace after the motion of censure, in the medium term, was a mistake.
Next, I will make a statement that I will try to argue: Ilie Bolojan's biggest political mistake would be to leave the position of dismissed prime minister before a new government is voted on in Parliament.
Neither he nor the PNL would recover from such a decision.
A second major mistake a political leader can make is to follow polls.
Sociological studies are instantaneous. No matter how professionally done, they do not capture the state of public opinion at a specific moment, in a context defined by a series of events and situations, impossible to quantify precisely.
This is also the origin of the recent problem of errors in polls. The more complex society is, the more bombarded with information, more connected, and more technologized, the faster the change in the public's "state" increases. Hence the increasing difficulty of capturing the latest trends before elections.
Who's leading the dance?
We live in a country where Călin Georgescu, the Kremlin's candidate, won the first round of the presidential elections, coming out of nowhere.
Two weeks before, no opinion poll placed him among the top 5 candidates. A month before the elections, he did not exist in the polls.
Nicușor Dan, in the first round of the presidential elections held again in May 2025, ranked second, with 21% of valid votes cast.
Do you remember how much George Simion got, as panic is being created about the AUR wave that will sweep everything in its path in potential early elections? 41%, double that of the current president.
Two weeks later, Nicușor Dan was at the Cotroceni Palace, even though at the beginning of the campaign, the chances of victory were extremely slim.
The last thing a political leader must do to assert themselves, to win elections, is to follow polls; the second is to follow the advice of advisors hired through connections, based on the principle of "I also have a guy."
In my opinion, a political leader must look at the numbers and, above all, have a source that delivers good, quality figures, not doctored to "not upset the client," but the figures should not dictate the political program; instead, the program, action, behavior, and speech of the leader create the numbers, generate public support.
The Crisis Culprits
If Ilie Bolojan leaves the Victoria Palace, it symbolically confirms that "he also bears some responsibility for the crisis that occurred." He becomes, in a way, associated with a crime he did not plan or execute.
Responsible for the current political crisis are Nicușor Dan, Sorin Grindeanu, and George Simion, each for different reasons. But if they joined forces to get rid of the prime minister, they should have finalized their plan. Instead, they stopped halfway and began to look for culprits and conspire without solutions.
It would be an immense political folly for Ilie Bolojan to give them satisfaction.
I looked at the numbers, I saw several public and less public polls published in recent days, and I am convinced that the current prime minister and the PNL have lost support.
How could they not lose support in a political crisis increasingly difficult to explain and with gasoline priced at over 10 lei per liter?
But this handicap will disappear the moment Sorin Grindeanu, personally or through representatives, steps back into the Victoria Palace.
Boxes and Planes
PSD and its associates have no plan, no objective for Romania; their haste and desperation are aimed at restoring the Ciucă-Ciolacu era, to make things okay, to avoid trouble, to throw money from helicopters again and restart the bureaucratic comfort, with hiring based on connections, through party networks, and as much corruption as possible.
The shoeboxes are heating up on the sidelines. Luxury private planes are lining up on the runway.
Every day spent at the Victoria Palace by Ilie Bolojan can be used to make Grindeanu's return more difficult, more complicated.
With each day at the office, with things packed, awaiting a new prime minister, Bolojan can still dismiss some useless bureaucrats, who are just spinning their wheels, and can change the "toxic paradigm" of Romania's economy, functioning on borrowed money, selling people's future at the market stall.
When he is no longer at the Victoria Palace, he will have all the time in the world to rebuild his public support, especially if he has something to say, remains credible, and has a plan for the country in his pocket. Until then, there are still issues to be resolved.