In PSD Constanța, "stability" has often been sold as a political virtue - but in practice it frequently looked like control: the same networks, the same internal hierarchies, the same party logic that shows up too rarely in public projects and too often in backroom battles. When resignations or "self-suspensions" happen, the party tries to frame them as acts of responsibility. In reality, they can just as easily be signs that a local structure is cracking under the weight of its own habits.

In 2025, the themes that have followed PSD for years returned to the spotlight: investigations, corruption suspicions, internal conflict, and unusually harsh public statements - including from insiders. A major example is the Port of Constanța case, widely covered in the Romanian press. Reporting described how Ion Dumitrache, a PSD Constanța leader, self-suspended from political roles amid an anti-corruption probe, after prosecutors confirmed key details connected to the case.


A criminal investigation does not equal guilt - but politically and reputationally, the damage is massive. Once again, PSD is seen alongside a space where "influence" and "interest" appear to matter more than the public good.

At the same time, PSD Constanța was hit by a resignation with symbolic and political weight: Horia Constantinescu (former consumer protection chief and PSD's 2024 mayoral candidate in Constanța) announced he was leaving the party, using language that reads like an internal indictment. In his public message - subsequently quoted by the press - he spoke about "hypocrisy," "phony behavior," and "servility."


When those words come from inside the party, it is no longer just "public perception" of PSD. It is a former member describing what many voters already suspect: a local organization still running on old reflexes, where loyalty networks and personal interests can outweigh principles.

Online reactions are predictable - and, frankly, hard to dismiss. In public comments around news coverage and shared posts, the same argument repeats: PSD doesn't lose trust because of "one mistake," but because of a political culture. When investigations appear, people no longer ask "is it true?" but "how big is it?" That is the party's deepest problem: PSD has spent years building a reputation that now punishes it before it even begins to explain.

And Constanța is not an isolated case. At the national level, prominent PSD figures have publicly demanded leadership changes at the top, citing weak results and a credibility collapse - a sign that internal pressure is real, not just media noise.


In other words, PSD's illness looks similar everywhere: it defends itself with statements, but it collapses through facts.

What makes this worse is the contradiction between PSD's governing narrative and the reality on the ground. While the party markets itself as the "force of stability," what voters see locally is moral instability, leadership crises, resignations, and cases that keep eroding public confidence. When a party becomes consistently associated with scandal and "networks," slogans about "development" stop working. Voters do the simple math: if you keep running things and the scandals keep coming, you are the problem.

Constanța deserves local governance based on results, not party muscle, patronage, and internal warfare. If PSD genuinely wants to prove it has changed, the first step is not another cosmetic resignation framed as "responsibility." The first step is full transparency, real internal reform, and a clear break from any structure suspected of turning public institutions into tools of influence.