The system has become the main theme of the presidential election campaign, being considered by most candidates the main responsible for the slow development of the country. But who is the system?
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To the question ”What or who is the system?‘, Communication Expert Radu Delotote points out that “The system in the elections of the last 8-10 months is the common enemy, the fairy tale drag, the stories that everyone imagines, everyone would like to palpate and has a negative folk perception. He is the same negative collective character who was used by Dragnea at some point, he is the same one and Ponta.
“D.The steps are the key, and the details of the system and the different struggle is the differentiating element for each candidate eager to win the electoral hearts. If it would take it the same, communication would be the same, the same messages, it would not be different ”, Complete the expert.
A definition also came from the Minister of Education: “A governed society, rules, a society that takes us from a group of homo sapiens to a civilization.”
Daniel David noted the excessive use of the theme in the election campaign: “Everyone is anti-system. And politicians all become anti-system. Everyone is anti-globalist ”.
The minister, quoted by Hotnews, showed that he agreed with those revolted against the Romanian system, “But the change must be done so that the institutions, not to give up and throw them, that we have nothing to put in their place, but to make them work better. ”
The approach was taken after the result that propelled Călin Georgescu in the 2nd round of 2024, without the support of a party. After the analysts pointed out that, in addition to possible external involvement, it is also a vote of dissatisfaction of the electorate towards the current political class, the candidates have reoriented in the campaign approach.
Propel to the top of the parties
Some of those who crave at the Cotroceni armchair have also explained what the system represents for them, and others have only suggested a definition in the public discourse.
Elena Lasconi, the renegade head of the USR and mayor in Câmpulung, is one of the most vocal candidates on this topic after entering the 2nd of the canceled elections, along with Călin Georgescu. Lasconi is at knives with USR, after, a few days after the beginning of the campaign, he was withdrawn political support in favor of Nicușor Dan
Lasconi accused of being a “system game”: “Now I am more determined than ever because I realize how rotten this system is and I expect other forms of pressure.”
She entered politics directly in the position of mayor in Câmpulung and gave a conservative approach to the progressive formation.
“He has some faces now the system”- Victor Ponta, candidate for presidential elections
Victor Ponta is applying independently for the presidential elections, being the second time in this hypostasis, after losing Klaus Iohannis in 2014. He was a prime minister, head of party and honorary counselor of Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu in 2023, a position he kept until the candidacy was announced. In fact, the PSD received it back to the party and put it on the list of deputies.
Victor Ponta defined the system in an interview for “Adevărul”, stating that he “has more faces”, nominating several people, including Marcel Ciolacu.
“It has some faces now the system: Marcel Ciolacu, Cătălin Predoiu, Hunor Kelemen and Crin Antonescu. There are the people who have led Romania over the last 35 years, practically. I speak for the last 5 years, after the pandemic. They have led Romania, and today (…) have limited and commit abuses, about those who have been posting. I am the system, that they excluded me from the party that I told them the truth. said Victor Ponta, asked how he defines the system.
With the parties in the back
Such approaches appear even in the speech of Crin Antonescu, the candidate of the ruling coalition. “That we are talking about people from services, people around justice institutions, people from the press, at them, the grinding and the network and the possible common order we refer when we talk about the system.”, Crin Antonescu recently said.
He also claimed that if the president becomes, there will be no “sSpecial Ervices of Secret Information“In the form known today and they will work for the state: “I am anti-system. I am not and I was not agent of some services”.
“I hope a right-wing alliance will support me”- Nicușor Dan, the mayor of the capital and candidate for the presidential elections
And Nicușor Dan was delimited by the system since the announcement of his candidacy, when he stated that “There is a need for a fundamental change in how the state responds to citizens’ expectations.”
The mayor was registered in an independent race, but along the campaign was helped by party appliances from a logistical point of view, in the planning of an electoral tour through the country. One of the connections that created the most problems in the current campaign is the one with Matei Păun, businessman with business ties in Belarus and the Russian Federation, with whom he has been surprised in several moments of recent months.
In fact, the mayor of the capital has won both mandates with the support of parties. In 2024 it was supported by the Alliance ADU (USR, PMP, the force of the right), in 2020 PNL and USRPLUS, and in the current campaign it has the support of the PMP, landmark, right and the strength of the right, the party led by Ludovic Orban, former president of PNL and Premier. Recently, he also obtained the support of the USR, who decided to abandon his candidate registered under his logo.
The party leader who inherits Călin Georgescu’s candidacy
George Simion is the one who takes over “The Sovereign candidate’s pole” From the former independent candidate Călin Georgescu in the current election race, being placed in the first places in polls. He was photographed in the past in the company of Victor Ponta, with discussions about a possible counseling offered to the head of the former prime minister.
Simion’s promotion was always based on the attack on the parties of power, but in the current campaign was positioned around Călin Georgescu, asking for the resumption of tour between him and Elena Lasconi. “It is no longer a democracy in Romania. We are a hybrid regime. We are under the Republic of Moldova and, in a country that claims to be part of the free world, in a member of the European Union and NATO, to cancel the elections, not to present evidence for the reasons for annulled the elections, it represents a big problem”, Recently said the gold leader at Europa FM.
Gold is in the second legislature and not only once George Simion was suspected of different agreements with PSD. George Simion has, like Nicușor Dan, a past as a civic activist, but he remained in the public attention.
