MCC Votes & Seats Podcast – Election insight
Az MCC Politikatudományi Műhelyének beszélgetéssorozatában szakértők és politikusok segítségével azt elemezzük, hogy a különböző európai országokban aktuálisan zajló parlamenti és önkormányzati választásoknak mely szereplők a valódi nyertesei és mi tekinthető igazi győzelemnek a szavazások után.
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With the help of local guest experts, in the podcast series of the MCC Center for Political Science, we endeavor to analyze which actors are the real winners of the parliamentary elections taking place throughout Europe, and what exactly can be considered an ultimate victory after the ballot counts.
MCC Votes & Seats Podcast – Election insight
2024 Romanian legislative election – What happened in the shadow of the turbulent presidential election?
A scheduled Romanian legislative election was held on 1 December 2024, between, now we can say, the planned two rounds of the presidential election. Following the decision of the Constitutional Court annulling the result of the first round, many are guessing what comes next, when will Romania hold the presidential election and when will it have a properly elected new president. In the meantime, the legislative election was successfully held, with the social democrats (PSD) taking the first place, followed by the right-wing populist AUR, and the liberals (PNL) coming third. And while mainstream moderate parties (PSD, PNL and the centrist USR) suffered a large drop in their share of popular vote and their number of seats in both chambers after 2020, AUR and two newly founded right-wing radical parties performed massively. The UDMR, representing the interests of the Hungarian minority, also performed decently to become a stable party in the legislation once again.
What was the campaign like? What happened at the polls? Why is the turnout in legislative elections traditionally low in Romania (in contrast to presidential elections)? What is the problem with Georgescu’s first-round win, what do we know today? What are the prospects for a new government? Szabolcs Janik, senior researcher of the Centre for Political Science had the chance to discuss these and similar questions with Titus Techera, a political scientist and visiting fellow of MCC in the latest episode of the Votes & Seats podcast series.
With the help of guest experts and politicians, in the podcast series of MCC’s Centre for Political Science we endeavor to analyze which actors are the real winners of the parliamentary and municipal elections taking place this year in different European countries and what exactly can be considered a real victory after the ballot counts.