Saturday, March 15, 2014
Executive (Omni Shoreham)
Over the past three years, one of the main discourse themes in Romania has been the moral-political crisis. This appears as an issue that both the political elite and the society are facing in the absence of values and principles to strengthen a national identity and confirm a European tradition born in the second half of the 19thcentury. The theme finds itself especially in the centre of the Right’s discourse and reform process; the resurrection of the image that represents a Christian-Liberal elite having shaped the Romanian Modern State became a reference and a model for the recreation of a Popular Movement.
The objective standing in the middle of this approach is that of a transformation based on the need to rediscover the Romanian identity. This requires a recovery from the inside, a regeneration of the society and elites in the spirit of a process started more than 100 years ago by timely figures who understood the essence of the Romanian people in the European context.
This article will analyse Romania’s socio-political identity crisis from the perspective of the Right wing discourse, discussing the state’s need to redefine itself beyond stereotypes and forms without substance as in the last half of the 19th century.
