Catégorie : Electoral Analyses
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Romania’s Shock Vote: From Safe Pro‑European Course to a Far‑Right Tide
By Claudia Bădulescu, Free University of Brussels, Institute of European Studies. Shortly after one o’clock on the morning of May 5, 2025, the Central Electoral Bureau in Bucharest released near‑final figures from the first round of Romania’s presidential election. They read like the script of an improbable political thriller. George Simion, the thirty‑eight‑year‑old leader of the…
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Polish Presidential Elections: How Mainstreaming of the (Far) Right Continues.
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By Wojciech Albert Łobodziński, journalist. This article was first published in Cross-border Talks on the 24th of April 2024. Find the original article here : Polish Presidential Elections: How Mainstreaming of the (Far) Right Continues [Analysis] – Cross-border Talks. Less than a month before the first round of presidential elections in Poland, Rafał Trzaskowski, a candidate…
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2025 Presidential elections in Poland.
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By Michał Kuryłowicz, Jagiellonian University, Poland. There are five weeks left until the first round of Poland’s presidential elections, but the election campaign is only now beginning in earnest. Few remember already the first – autumn – stage of the battle for the presidential palace, that is, the selection of candidates of the two largest…
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Dark clouds at the start of the Romanian presidential campaign.
By Cristian Preda, University of Bucharest. This article was first published in the review Comunitatea liberală 1848 on the 4th of April 2025. Link to the original article in Romanian: Nori negri la startul campaniei – Comunitatea Liberala. We have five candidates for Cotroceni who could, in principle, exceed 10%. In alphabetical order, they are…
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Back to round one: a first presentation of the candidates for the Romanian presidential election.
By Cristian Preda, University of Bucharest. This article was first published in the review Comunitatea liberală 1848 on the 21st of March 2025. Link to the original publication, in romanian: Înapoi la turu’ întâi – Comunitatea Liberala. In recent weeks, we have been bombarded with the cries of sovereignists calling for « back to round two! ».…