Aspecte ale vieţii politice în judeţul Timiş-Torontal în a doua jumătate a anului 1946
On the political life in Timiș-Torontal county in the second half of 1946

Summary/Abstract: The political life in Timiș-Torontal County as well as that one at the national level was dominated in the second half of 1946 by the campaign for Parliament elections in November, with lot of abuses and illegal acts, and teasing the traditional parties (the National Peasants’ Party and the National Liberal Party, and also the Independent Social-Democratic Party lead by advocate Constantin-Titel Petrescu). A series of crises, “secessions”, resignations and dismissals occurred also within the Block of Democratic Parties, generating at a certain moment, a severe crisis of confidence among the members of the governmental coalition. That one was caused by making “a covenant” with “the enemy” (namely, the political organizations of the democratic opposition), by a different visions concerning the Germans and Serbians, as well as by defeatist actions of some of the leaders in communes, towns, counties and regions, or some of important cadres’ disciplinary deviations, etc. The leaders of BDP were looking askance at the guardists too; they made so a series of lists with the guardists who had become members – sometimes, even presidents – of some local subsidiaries of the parties in the governmental “arch” (without any note on the context or the way of such cases); they were also more than “attentive” to the former members of the so-called “fascist”, “nazist” or “pro-fascist” organizations, etc. The electoral campaigns that lasted for long in fact (June-November 1946) was a special opportunity for a propagandist “duel” between the power and the opposition; non-transparence in informing adopted ever frequently by the cabinet of “a large democratic concentration” lead by dr. Petru Groza, induced a similar retailing that covered all the “topical” questions the population in Timis-Torontal and the limitrophe counties to (Caraș, Severin and Arad) had to face. The “treasons” of some of the cadres in BDP that were revealed just in the election day (November 19, 1946) needed an urgent re-organizing of those structures and a large cabinet reshuffling (done at the end of November the same year).

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