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In an interview with HotNews.ro, the sociologist Gelu Duminică makes an X-ray of Romanian society, after the parliamentary elections won by the PSD and whose surprise was the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR). He says that many of those who voted for GOLD have never heard what this party wants in their lives, but they have found their saviors in it, because they have felt abandoned by the big parties.
Sociologist Gelu Duminică says that the surprise is not that the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) entered the Parliament, but the high score it obtained: more than 8%. On Sunday, he warned in March, in an article for the University of Bucharest, that one of the greatest dangers of the COVID crisis is the strengthening of the nationalist and anti-European discourse because the most vulnerable sectors of the population, hardest hit by this crisis, they are tempted. to support those leaders by posing as their rescuers and friends. “This is what happened after the Great Depression of the 1930s,” the sociologist said in an interview with HotNews.
The explanation offered by Gelu Duminică about the result of Sunday’s elections: the people lost confidence in the traditional leadership, which caused many of them to no longer be found in any message. There are disadvantaged categories that have felt neglected. And these people were looking to find their “saviors.”
How is Romanian society now?
- Embarrassed. It’s like he was punched in the beard and he didn’t know what happened to him.
“AUR won as in the 30s, on the same crisis situation, on the same distrust towards the big parties”
- People felt abandoned. These are whole blankets, from poor areas, which needed investment and are not found in any message. In those moments, you look at the saviors, those who come and give you the feeling of magnification, of power, appealing to conservative values, to history, to Sergiu Nicolaescu’s cinema or to Burebista.
- On the other hand, others came who gave them the feeling of false greatness and found them guilty – the Hungarians, Europe … These are those from AUR – little legionaries who won as in the 30s, in the same crisis situation, over the same distrust in the big parties. It’s the same kind of behavior.
- If the big parties had offered well-being, attention and empathy, the behavior of the Romanian electorate would have been different. Messages like “we don’t care too much about small entrepreneurs” only made those people feel abandoned. Because they needed understanding and empathy. At a time when the focus was more on big companies, investors, then this simple and poor electorate felt like nobody and turned to the newcomers, to the anti-establishment.
“Many of those who voted for GOLD have never heard what this party wants in their lives.”
- I am absolutely convinced that many of those who voted for GOLD have never heard what this party wants in their lives, they have not heard from the coalition for the family, its anti-immigrant discourse. It’s like in a
>, when they were reading the newspaper >: I’m tired of these and these, who should I look at? Well, I don’t have anyone else.
“AUR is now the only anti-system party”
- AUR is now the only anti-establishment party, like USR, 4 years ago.
- The USR, with a different type of electorate, lost part of it mainly due to internal conflicts, and many of its voters did not go to the polls, while others voted for the PNL.
“Society is no more antagonistic than before, but it is dizzy”
- Society is no more antagonistic than before, but it is dizzy. Some Romanians – those who did not go to the polls – now understand that their vote really mattered, those who went to the polls and voted with the newcomers feel intoxicated by the success of the victory, and the others do not know where to go. , because I don’t know what’s next.
- According to a sociological survey carried out in May, a third of the population is conservative, a third pro-European and a third undecided. This time, the middle third showed their greed and did not participate in the vote, otherwise people from both ends went to the polls. The middle zone did not go to the polls because they had no messages in the campaign, they had no emotion and because the PSD, the main evil, no longer motivated them.
“We have a political class quite torn from the citizen agenda”
- Everything that is happening now has shown us that we have a political class quite removed from the citizen agenda. It was a 100% political vote, not of ideas.
- We are here because the current political forces have tried to keep their vote as long as possible, but many times they did not think that the vote was emotional. And, look, 10% voted super emotionally, any party other than the one above.
“The only culprit of the electoral result is the voter”
- Romania has always had a conservative core of voters, which I saw in the elections embodied in the vote for the PRM or in the vote for the United Romania Party. In addition, AUR benefited from a good mobilization among legionary nests and religious movements.
- The only innocent of the result of Sunday’s elections is the voter, because it is not the fault of the people who did not understand the messages, but of the parties that did not know how to transmit them and show them empathy.
“When you anchor your policies in an ideal Romania, the real Romania catches your eye”
- Yesterday is not about the failure of the Romanian voter, but about the failure of the parties in Romania.
- The Romanian educational system has got us where we are.
- Nothing is accidental. For some,
> meant danger of starvation. The moment you just received >, logically that the man rebelled. He was outraged because he didn’t understand why he couldn’t go to church, but he could go to the mall. He did not understand why these tough measures in the church area were not announced by the Government together with the priests. They saw the archbishop in rebellion and then they didn’t understand anything. - This diverse Romania was not taken into account. The moment you, the party, anchor your policies in an ideal Romania, the real Romania catches your eye. The ideal Romania is not only about banks, entrepreneurs, companies. Real Romania doesn’t just want roads and infrastructure, it wants other things too. These people, the real Romania, did not feel heard by the big parties. So it was in the 1930s.
“Four years of chaos ahead”
- Four years of chaos follow, with strong governance.
- If the alliance fails to have an effective government for 4 years, we will definitely slide down the path of nationalism and extremism for the next few years. Because any mistake will be very well capitalized by the AUR anti-establishment party. This recipe for Romania has never brought anything good.
“GOLD is like a pandemic: we see things that existed, but we saw each other”
- We will have to get used to this party, GOLD. I don’t think they have the luck of PP-DD, because they have a very good organization and many resources.
- I am convinced that it will resist and I fear that it could become the main opposition party, for the simple reason that at the moment the only anti-system party in the Romanian Parliament is GOLD. The USR can no longer be considered an anti-system party, it will be in power, it is doomed to be in power.
- PSD will also be in the opposition, but the one that will capture all the complaints will be GOLD.
- GOLD is like a pandemic: it makes us see things that we never saw before, even if they existed.
