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Could you tell us who Basescu and Becali are? I must admit I am not familiar with the names, to my probable shame when you will tell us!

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by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Wed Sep 7th, 2005 at 11:05:48 AM EST
Basescu is the new president, before that he was major of Bucharest. He is on one hand a clean-hands populist, on the other hand inspired by the US neocons (not in style as our cons, but ideology!) - and behind flat tax reform.

Becali is a chauvinist populist trouble-stirrer businessman and owner of a football club; but I didn't hear that he has a political position.

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by DoDo on Wed Sep 7th, 2005 at 04:11:55 PM EST
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As DoDo says.  Absolutely no reason why you should have heard of Becali.  But trust me he's an idiot of the highest order.  Think small time Dick Cheney crossed with Tony Soprano crossed with Jesus Gil y Gil.  He's the owner of Steaua Bucharest, who you are more likely to have heard of.

I think DoDo is a little harsh on Basescu, who is much more centrist (though right of centre to be sure) than NeoCon.  He even had the guts to stand up against Bush and investigate the contract that had been signed between the previous adminstration and US contractor Bechtel to build a motorway.

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by adhoc on Thu Sep 8th, 2005 at 06:02:40 AM EST
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