 This outcome was impatiently expected, but largely predictable—days earlier, speculations on this topic had surfaced in "Dimineața" daily; the left-wing "Facla" discussed the trial as "a travesty".Nonetheless, a few days after, the Metropolitan handed in his resignation.Although he claimed to have acted on his distress with the scandal, speculation arose that he had pushed into it—either by the swinging political consensus or, more specifically, by Arion's resentment.