But the shocking closeness to Basescu and to the party he so much criticized made Romanians lose confidence. According to as INSCOP Research survey Crin Antonescu disappears from all the polls, in the "trust" chapter.
Thus, the former leader of the Liberal Party only gathers 15.7% of the confidence votes in terms of "a lot and more", less than Traian Basescu (17.5%) and Ion Iliescu (19.1%). In February 2013, he still enjoyed a 33% confidence rating and was among the top three political figures of the day.
Today, however, he has collapsed in the polls.
The fact that the poll places him in the strict proximity of former presidents consolidates even more the impression that what makes Crin Antonescu go down is precisely the fact that he is no longer part of the present, dw.de reports.
His disappearance from the leading party ranks shows how much his image was destroyed by the coalition with the PDL and, implicitly, the proximity to Traian Basescu. These changes in political ideology overnight cannot go unpunished in the collective mind.
The most stable personalities who remain in the political and economic scene are Mugur Isarescu - by 40%, Victor Ponta nearly 40 percent and Iohannis just over 30%.