The electoral policy in 2012: the local and parliamentary elections from Dolj County (Romania)
The electoral policy in 2012: the local and parliamentary elections from Dolj County (Romania)

Summary/Abstract: The electoral elections from 2012 represented for Romania a moment of great interest, an electoral test that the Social Liberal Union took first with the local elections and in December with the parliamentary elections. Besides the failure registered by the PDL governing and the street protests from January and February, the decisive elements that contributed to the change registered on the political level are determined by the dissatisfaction among all the categories of the Romanian society and the experiences of the last years, in which “austerity” was the most frequent used word by the leaders. Equally, there was also a harsh political war, with the highest intensity after the Revolution from December 1989, when the opposition succeeded in obtaining the governing before the parliamentary elections, thus, USL became the greatest force, from the period after December 1989, and determined the regress in popularity for the president Traian Băsescu who, along with the Democrat Liberal Party, started to decrease electorally. The score registered after the elections surpassed the expectations of the two co-presidents of the alliance, Victor Ponta and Crin Antonescu, being higher than in the moment they had taken responsibility for the governing. The results of the elections led to a new political map in which USL obtained the 1st place, Dolj County being an integrant part of this event. The author considers the most accurate presentation, on the national and, especially, Dolj County level, of the events related to the elections from 2012. The electoral campaigns, the debates among the candidates and the results of the elections are analysed according to the statistic data offered by the National Institute of Statistics, The Regional Department of Statistics from Dolj, the involved parties and the articles from the national and local media.

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