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Romania: Political Developments and Data in 2021

Covid Crisis and Unexpected Political Changes in the Absence of Elections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2026

Lavinia Stan  and
Razvan Zaharia
Lavinia Stan
Affiliation:
St Francis Xavier University, Antigonish NS, Canada
Razvan Zaharia
Affiliation:
Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania
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Abstract

Romania was affected by Cabinet instability, an energy crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021, a year when no elections or referenda were held. Its self-interested political elite, rocked by scandals related to plagiarism and preoccupied almost exclusively with the distribution of positions, was unable to address the oil and gas crisis affecting every household, and unwilling to help an underfunded healthcare system.

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Political Data Yearbook , Volume 61 , Issue 1 , December 2022 , pp. 385 - 397
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Copyright © 2022 European Consortium for Political Research

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[Correction added on 10 June 2022, after first online publication: The title has been updated and the abstract has been added in this version.]

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