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Romania after the elections
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Sven-Joachim Irmer
A country searching for its path into the future, and encountering its past as it does so
In December, the Romanians elected a new parliament — half a year after Romania’s prime minister, Victor Ponta, caused international alarm by attempting to force the country’s president to step down. The degree of indignation felt by the Romanian population can be judged most of all by the low turnout in the elections, if not in the election result itself.
