The article analyses international reactions to Romania’s presidential elections, focusing on the annulled vote of November 2024 and the rescheduled election in May 2025. It underscores how these developments were interpreted by Western democracies and by the revisionist authoritarian regime of the Russian Federation. One of the most contentious moments in Romania’s democratic evolution since...
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This study examines how climate policies are presented in the electoral programs of sovereigntist candidates in the 2024 Romanian presidential elections, by comparison to those of Donald Trump in the 2024 U.S. elections. In Romania, climate policies follow the framework of the European Green Deal, whereas in the United States they are associated with the...
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This study seeks to elucidate the complexities of the heterogeneous diaspora vote in the 2025 Romanian presidential elections through the examination of secondary data from the Romanian Permanent Electoral Authority. The study seeks to identify trends in the voting data, and to analyze these patterns. The study is at the intersection of diaspora studies and...
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This study provides a critical analysis of the 2025 Romanian presidential elections, focusing on their unfolding and public reflection within the Republic of Moldova. Interest in these elections grew significantly among Romanian citizens residing in Moldova. The May 2025 vote followed a prolonged and intricate electoral process that began in 2024 and concluded with the...
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The Romanian presidential elections of 2024-2025 marked a turning point in the country’s post-communist political trajectory, given their annulment and rerun as well as the ideological polarization they revealed. Central to the electoral discourse was the Republic of Moldova, whose EU candidacy and strategic relevance were instrumentalized by candidates across the political spectrum. This article...
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This paper aims to qualitatively analyze the electoral platforms of the seven Romanian parties that exceeded the 5% electoral threshold, in both the European Parliament and the Romanian Parliament elections, in 2024. These are the four pro-European parties (PSD, PNL, USR, UDMR) and three populist parties (AUR, SOS – Partidul SOS România, and POT). The...
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This study explores the impact of nationalist parties on the sustainability of democracy, focusing on Romanian students’ perceptions in the context of the 2024 European Parliamentary elections. The rise of nationalist and populist parties across the European Union has sparked concerns about the potential erosion of democratic values and stability. Using a descriptive exploratory research...
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Regional development, a process with multiple economic, social and environmental facets, is determined by a complex interaction of factors that shape its trajectory. Development models are intrinsically linked to local history, the strategic use of existing resources, the cultivation of economic opportunities and the enhancement of human capital, and their application often generates contradictory results....
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Recent presidential elections in Romania reveal not only institutional and political tensions, but a deeper anthropological and epistemological crisis: the erosion of discernment as a condition of freedom. Electoral choice, traditionally understood as a rational act of deliberation, increasingly functions as a form of affective recognition, borrowing symbolic legitimacy from religious language rather than from...
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