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Romanians are preparing to go to the polls in a parliamentary vote that will determine a new government and prime minister to lead the.
Le elezioni presidenziali in Romania del 2019 si sono tenute il 10 novembre (primo turno) e il 24 novembre (secondo turno) per la scelta del Presidente.
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Comment: What's the stake of the local elections in Romania?

The elections for the local administration in Romania usually don't get the same visibility and attention as the general election, although they are arguably as important or even more important for the people.

While the general elections determine the structure of the Parliament and who gets to form the Government, the two bodies in charge of the big decisions in Romania, the local elections decide who will manage each locality and county in the next four years.

The local councils and county councils are the bodies that make the decisions at a local level, which often directly impact the lives of the people living in those localities and counties. For example, they get to decide if they ask for state funds to modernize schools, or access EU funds for road and sewage infrastructure, or revamp the local hospitals, or build new parks. Or they can do nothing and spend the local budgets on welfare and flowers.

If mayors and local councils really want to change their community members' lives for the better, they wil

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High turnout of 42% at 5pm in Romania's parliamentary elections

Romanians were voting on Sunday in a parliamentary election sandwiched between a two-round presidential race - the first of which has plunged the European Union and NATO member into unprecedented turmoil following allegations of electoral violations and Russian interference.

The election will usher in a new government and prime minister and determine the formation of the 466-seat legislature. Romanians living abroad were able to vote since Saturday. By 1 p.m., nearly 4.2 million people — about 23% of eligible voters — had cast ballots, according to the Central Election Bureau.

The legislative vote comes a week after the first round of a presidential race that saw a controversial far-right populist who was polling in single digits win the most votes. Calin Georgescu, 62, is due to face reformist Elena Lasconi of the Save Romania Union party, or USR, in a Dec. 8 runoff.

Georgescu’s success, which many have attributed to his rapid rise in popularity on the social media platform TikTok, has trig

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Romania

Abstract

Romanian politics and society have been traditionally Europhile and uncritical towards the process of European integration. From the mid-1990s onwards, all parties with ambitions of government converged on consensual pro-European stances. Since then, no relevant party built its agenda around a critical assessment of the EU. On this basis, this chapter aims to assess the way Romanian parties referred to the EU in the most recent EP elections. The main conclusion of the analysis is that although there have been no diverging visions of the European project, the 2019 campaign marked a change in direction. The consensus on the EU was shattered but not by a critical assessment of the economic and political benefits of integration. Instead, it translated domestic fights on highly polarizing issues: the fight against corruption and the independence of justice.

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For more details, see Law 33/2007 ‘Regarding the Organisation and Carrying of the European Parliament El