Nicu Vasilescu
the quicksilver of P.P.:
"Our message goes to the undecided."

- Mr. Vasilescu, didn't you betray "The National Movement" for the sake of the people's project?
- "The National Movement" is not a party's monopoly. So I haven't betrayed anyone because I never gave up on it. For 14 years, I believed in a political project called PRM. I don't regret one second of those years, however I couldn't wait another 14 years to find a deceptive ending. I believed in the PRM's people's future and, once that idea got officially abandoned, I remained "stuck in the system". As a conclusion, I have accepted helping the realization of a new political project, that can offer a viable alternative to… the current option that is governing Romania. I hope I don't have to wait another 14 years for its finalization, and that the near future will consolidate a youthful, serious and efficient political force: The People's Party!

- Actually, what is that… "The People"?
- "From the people, for the people" - that is how a political doctrine would look in my vision. Built by men that come from the day to day life, men that know what the people need, men that know what the society's problems are. Once they have the power, they must be able to come up with solutions and they must never forget the first priority of normal governing: the citizen's prosperity. No twinkles, no graceful behaviors, no utopist programs, no idle talk, no personal interests or political decisions dictated by something else than the citizen's wish. After all, the government is just a simple administrator, not an all mighty organism of the state that can practice his abstract philosophies on the simple man. A People's Party governing is the perfect image of the citizen's power.

- What would you choose: pretty girls or a high percentage in the polls?
- Why should I have to choose? I want the People's Party to have girls that are pretty and smart, who, through their qualities, can contribute to the high percentage in the polls. Just wait and see what a great youthful organization will be built around the people's doctrine!

- Do you have real expectations regarding the People's Party or do you just want to be a boss?
- I have real expectations and I hope I will not wait too long. If I wanted to be "a boss", I would've stayed in the PRM. I was the vice-president of a parliamentary party and (some say) it had a good perspective… I decided to start from scratch. And now, in the beginning, no one is a boss. We are all a team. I can become "a boss" if I work hard and my efforts will be appreciated by the delegates of the First Congress of the People's Party.

- Aren't there many parties that call themselves a people's party? Why didn't you choose one of those?
- Wrong! There is no real People's Party at the moment in Romania. All kinds of political phantoms the "a man and a stamp" type. I've seen some of them at the law-court, full of themselves like some overgrown kids, believing someone is stealing their toys. How can a normal man go inside a world like this? Of course, we can talk about the PD trajectory towards the people's doctrine, but this is an interview not a class! The People's Party is a "thorough" political project, without any doctrine assimilations or image constructions just because it looks good to be a people's party.

- Do you run after the PRM members? Do you want to get as many as you can?
- We don't run after anybody! Especially the PRM members. If they come, they are welcome, if they don't, they don't. We want to send a message to the people that don't have the motivation to vote yet. The people that could only choose between the rightwing (that changed its name every 4 years for the beauty of it) and PSD (that changed its name according to the internal conflicts). First of all, our message goes to these people. And one more thing… We care a lot about the quality of those that want to join the party. We are not interested in the quantity. That is why we don't run after anybody.