Nicușor Dan, the new president of Romania, has been in office in the background of deep political and social divisions, while Sunday’s elections expose the extent of frustration and public distrust.
Nicușor Dan/Photo: Reuters
“We are relieved because we avoided the bullet“, Says Claudiu Năsui, deputy of the Union Save Romania Party.”A Presidency Simion would have been potentially disastrous for Romania ”, adds the USR deputy, according to RFI.
Also, the French publication emphasizes that the economic state of Romania could force the new government to take unpopular measures, such as increasing taxes and reducing expenses – while the right right opposition will be eager to get the chance to get more popular support if such measures are considered too harsh.
Referring to the result, Năsui stated that “oamenities tired of being ignored by the political class“, Speaking on Radio France International in the cavernous central hall of the Bucharest Parliament building, designed by the communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
However, Năsui warns that now is the time to look forward.
“Romania has a huge deficit problem, huge economic problems – we must solve these problems (before) by the following choices, if we do not want to avoid bullet after the bullet ”says the USR deputy.
Sorin Ioniță, political scientist and director of the Think Tank of Public Policies Expert Forum in Bucharest, has described as an unexpected extent of Dan’s victory.
“It was surprising about the magnitude, we did not expect a seven -point difference after the first round, when the winner came to have an advantage of 20 percent. But this happened, however, and shows how volatile the situation was ”he explained.
During the first round, the presence at the vote was 53.2 %, but in the second round a historical presence of 64.7 %, the largest in the last 25 years. “Vote presence made the difference“Says Ioniță.
Sorin Ioniță adds that Nicușor Dan won with “a comfortable margin“, Which means that “When the stakes are very high (Romanians) felt that it is more than one party or another, or one coalition versus another.”
In addition to internal economic challenges, Dan also faces obstacles in foreign policy.
His rival, Simion – the leader of the alliance for the union of Romanians, far right, and a self -proclaimed trumpist who wanted to “make Romania again again” – could have been better placed to treat with the US President, but Dan will continue to try to strengthen Romania’s crucial connection with NATO and its integration within the European Union.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Europe has sought to strengthen its eastern flank, and France runs the NATO multinational combat group, consisting of 1,200 soldiers.
But Simion, speaking two days before the second round of May 18, accused the French President Emmanuel Macron of interference in the Romanian elections.
The golden leader spent his last day of his election campaign in Paris. During a common press conference with the far -right Romanian MEP Marion Maréchal, broadcast live on his Facebook page, he denounced what he called Macron’s “dictatorial trends”, shouting: “Down his hands!”
On Sunday, May 18, Pavel Durov, the Russian founder of the Telegram Messessic Service, also published bombastic statements, accusing the head of French secret services of trying to mix in the Romanian elections.
