What Marcel Ciolacu did by associating with the dubious Sprînceana, even ousted from the Georgist camp by Anca Alexandrescu, where he had been a prominent figure for a long time, and by entrusting him with a double discourse, far exceeds in gravity the effects on his petty political destiny.
The effects are, first and foremost, on the credibility of the Romanian state, whose high-ranking official, accidentally, he is.
Ciolacu's Envoys
In short, after undermining his own Foreign Minister in the Visa Waver suspension scandal, Marcel Ciolacu thought it would be fitting to double him with two envoys: "There are two Romanians, one from Romania, one based in America. They did not leave on government money. They are both using their own funds."
The two envoys assumed by the Prime Minister were a County Council President, Lucian Romașcanu, and a truck driver with a shady past, in the Tate brothers' style, Dragoș Sprînceană, called at 5 in the morning by the Prime Minister with the request to deliver good messages over a drink at Mar a Lago.
Both were sent to MAGA to assure that Romania is cunning and playing both sides, and the interim president, a spokesperson, will not last long in office, after which we'll return to our Fanar.
With skills suitable for the new context of impostors at the White House, the truck driver Sprînceană's head swelled and he started babbling incessantly, actually revealing, on TV, the mandate he received from Ciolacu.
"Exactly what I told the American administration, I told Mr. Ciolacu as well: the American administration needs to understand, to ignore Romania's slightly pro-Ukraine and pro-France messages, because we have an interim president who will not matter in a month or a month and a half.
We need to wait for a new president. We need to wait for a stable administration in Romania and resume bilateral communication, economic, political, and strategic ties after these elections. That is the smartest message and the one that helps Romania the most, in my opinion. And that's exactly what the United States is doing now, if you notice (...)
I am not an envoy of Mr. Ciolacu, but of Romania. Mr. Ciolacu represents the position of Prime Minister of Romania and I need to help Romania, indirectly."
So Mr. Ciolacu fully embraced the message to be delivered at Mar a Lago and engaged Romania in this treacherous parallel negotiation.
Caught in the act, Mr. Ciolacu tried to weakly distance himself from the truck driver, saying that this is not the official position of Romania. Of course, it isn't. But the truck driver went to convey the unofficial and cunning one.
That's exactly what Sprînceană responded when questioned by Digi TV about his statements contradicting the official line: "I personally asked Mr. Ciolacu and he told me the opposite of what you are saying now, on his behalf and his office."
The Slyness with Broken Legs
Of course, the first question is whether the man with trucks from MAGA told the truth or lied. Let's say he lied, that the duplicitous position belongs to him and the Prime Minister was unaware of it. It's no better for Marcel Ciolacu.
How can you entrust unofficial diplomacy, which he undoubtedly did, to such a primitive man, with such a poor understanding of delicate mechanisms, who, like Gigi Becali, cannot help but show off on TV?
What kind of statesman are you yourself, if you get involved with such a creature just because he orbits in the Mar a Lago fauna? What Sprînceană thinks, anti-EU, anti-Ukraine, a fan of the Tate and Georgescu brothers, could be seen in a few minutes of lingering on his public profile.
Most likely, however, the truck driver, like Becali when he takes the stage, did not lie and this was exactly the mandate he received.
To explain to Trump how Romania plays through Ciolacu, a clever boy, on both sides, with a soul in MAGA, because anti-justice, circus, and "swagger" are all that Bucharest leaders desire, but with statements and commitments in Brussels, as that's where the money comes from.
However, about the nauseating duplicity of Bucharest, not only Trump found out, but all the chancelleries of the world did. Everyone realized that Romanians cannot be trusted, that it's wise to keep a hand on your wallet when talking to the Prime Minister of Romania, that for us, principles, promises, and solidarity are jokes.
That, in fact, in Bucharest, at least in the Victoria Palace, a Trumpist is in charge, but one from the back of the room, brought in by a truck driver through the garbage exit, not a front-row Trumpist like Viktor Orban. A small and pathetic one, from the storage room, too cowardly to be embraced like the neighbor from Budapest.
That's all Marcel Ciolacu can do, tricks and schemes, those that got him out of the second round just when he thought his political cunning would bring him the ideal final with Simion. And that's how he leads the Romanian Government.
How can he not send envoys with gifts to the High Gate, when he's about to lose most of the funds from the PNRR?
It's no wonder he yelled at Kelemen Hunor when he stated on Europa FM that some losses cannot be recovered, because last year the Government, led by the same Marcel Ciolacu, did not implement any reforms.
The worst part is that Marcel Ciolacu's resignation/dismissal now could trigger a serious political crisis resulting in an easy victory for one of the Trumpists, no better than him.
But after the elections, it is possible that this ongoing trickery will catch up with him and break his political legs. Because when the economic bill of his governance comes due, possibly exacerbated by Trump's delirium and his own exposed duplicity, someone will have to foot the political bill. And I don't see who else he can throw under the train.