 Although critical of the Popular Front, he insisted that Romania could only rely on the strength of her friendship with France.As noted by Georges Oudard, the PC never stood a chance to regain power, but became noted for advocating "the sanity of economic and financial orthodoxy against the temptations of a coming world".The party criticized all attempts at furthering the land reform, and, through Periețeanu, proposed abandoning the gold standard for the Romanian leu, favoring fiat money as the "best economic policy"—although, as Filipescu had argued in 1931, this measure was seen by the PC as tragic.