The weekend demonstrations for the support of Călin Georgescu and for the annulment of the presidential elections gathered a few people before the Parliament and the Government, although its supporters announced a overwhelming number. The support for the politicians manifests itself differently, and the candidate’s support is based on the frustration of the electorate towards the mainstream parties, says the sociologist Ionaș Vladimir.
The candidate contradicted and claimed that he did not call the photo people inquam Photos / Octav Ganea
On Saturday, February 22, George Simion and Călin Georgescu called their supporters in the streets to protest the election, on which the Gold Party claims that it also gathered the signatures necessary for Călin Georgescu’s candidacy. On the first day a few hundred people gathered, and in the second at most four thousand.
Georgescu supported, in the context of the low presence at the rally he announced in the Constitution Square, that he did not call people to protest, although on Wednesday he told his supporters that he must look “A concrete action by presence in a overwhelming number in the Constitution Square ”.
“I saw in the Soroşist press the inventions are the order of the day and so it is titled that today there were few people, that it was not a great protest, that it was night instead of day, that it was hot and not cold, that water and water I don’t come, finally. I did not say that today it will be a large protest and I did not invite a protest! That’s what Soros1, Soros3 and Soros24 television said. I said that today is the moment when we will prove that in one day, symbolically, we can gather the signatures to reconfirm the union of our people and that we have done ”motivated Călin Georgescu.
People were called to protest and by gold.
Why weren’t the people present at the level of expectations
Sociologist Ionaș Vladimir explained for “Adevărul” that there are several factors that explain a low presence at rallies. “This civic spirit appears quite difficult. The outing of the street either is done on the exemplary mobilization of some parties, as was the protest for a few years ago organized by the PSD, there are protests that the branches organize and bring people based on these protests ”, the sociologist explained.
“The spontaneous protests, so to speak, those in which people go out because they support an idea, are harder to mobilize. Usually, they gather a lot of people when they are against something, when you have a very clear enemy as were the protests against ordinance 13. Usually, all over the world, the street movements that go against something, a danger , that he is a party, a politician, a legislative change, manage to create emotion and mobilize people to come, than these meetings that are for something, pro-Călin Georgescu to We say. The idea of supporting someone is shown to vote”, Ionaș Vladimir pointed out.
The sociologist also pointed out how the involvement of politicians in street movements removes society.
“Every time a politician, a political party, politicians in general, because already Mr. Georgescu is a political character in Romania, every time he tries to convince people to adhere to an idea of masses, the reaction is rather inverse . The best example is Liviu Dragnea, when he was trying to get on the subject of the family referendum, which had a great support in society, but with his intervention and the party, at that time, people preferred to retire, to make a Step in the back, considering that it is not the work of the political, not a matter that holds the politics, but rather of society ”, the sociologist pointed out.
Also, according to him, the low number of people present at the two rallies show a lower support in Bucharest compared to Călin Georgescu. “At National level, still manages to keep around 37-38 percent. Score that does not guarantee in no way to win the tower 2. There is a completely different game, it is reset. There are many signs of questions today about what a two tour would look like. It depends with whom it arrives ”, Ionaș Vladimir also explained.
In fact, the support given by his electorate is based on the vote against the mainstream parties: “Obviously, dissatisfaction still exists. It can be considered to have a support, but which comes from a frustration towards the political class and the way they have managed the mainstream parties to administer Romania in recent years and how they have understood to communicate all the measures and all the successes of the government and so on. So it is also a support that starts from an anti-something. It is not a problem, it is not Călin Georgescu, I do not know, a miracle that came, no. He manages to gather an electorate, the fortress in which they support him, only out of frustration of the rest of the political class”.
At the elections of November 24, 22.94% of the voters chose Călin Georgescu.
