Catégorie : Electoral Analyses
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Motorists, Pirates and Dissatisfied Citizens: Recipes for Electoral Success in the Czech Republic
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By Marek Prsin and Tim Haughton, LMU Munich, Germany and University of Birmingham, United Kingdom Czech politics used to be straightforward. For the first two decades after the Velvet Revolution, the story of party politics could be told largely with reference to just four parties. And party competition between the two main parties, the Social…
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The Greatest Challenge for the New President.
By Cristian Preda, University of Bucharest. This article was first published in the review Comunitatea liberală 1848 on the 26th May 2025. Link to the original article in Romanian: Cea mai grea problemă pentru noul președinte – Comunitatea Liberala. Ion Iliescu was born in 1930, Emil Constantinescu nine years later, Traian Băsescu saw the light…
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We Won the Battle but the War Continues.
By Claudia Bădulescu, Free University of Brussels, Institute of European Studies. Eighteen years after joining the European Union, Romania has shown, again, why its place is inside the European family. On 18 May the independent, pro-European mathematician-turned-mayor Nicușor Dan defeated George Simion, the leader of the far-right Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), overturning…
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Proud to Be European – MAGA Would Do Well to Stop Betting on Putin’s Puppets in the EU.
By Cristian Preda, University of Bucharest. This article was first published in the review Comunitatea liberală 1848 on the 19th May 2025. Link to the original article in Romanian: Mândri că suntem europeni. MAGA ar face bine să nu mai mizeze în UE pe marionetele lui Putin – Comunitatea Liberala. Nicușor Dan secured a clear…
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Presidential elections in Poland – on the eve of the first round
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By Michał Kuryłowicz, Jagiellonian University, Poland. Poland’s presidential campaign is nearing the end of its first round. Although the most important candidates were already known last December, its full momentum came five weeks before the date of elections. Of course, it was to be expected that it would be the finale of the race for…