{"id":12172,"date":"2026-09-25T11:00:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=12172"},"modified":"2026-09-25T11:00:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T11:00:25","slug":"half-of-romanians-blame-all-politicians-for-current-crisis-survey-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=12172","title":{"rendered":"Half of Romanians blame \u201call politicians\u201d for current crisis, survey says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overall, the survey showed a high level of dissatisfaction. Around 88% of respondents believe that Romania is heading in the wrong direction, while only 8% consider the direction to be good, with the remaining 4% representing undecided respondents or non-responses.<\/p>\n<p>Romania has been without a fully empowered government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/society\/ilie-bolojan-government-falls-may-2026\">since May 5<\/a>, after the previous administration lost its parliamentary majority. The political deadlock could open the way to snap elections.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding responsibility for the current political situation, almost half of those surveyed (49%) believe that \u201call politicians\u201d are to blame.<\/p>\n<p>Around 21% identify interim prime minister Ilie Bolojan and the National Liberal Party (PNL) as the main culprit, 11% point to the Social Democratic Party (PSD), 8% to president Nicu\u015for Dan, while the far-right Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) and the reformist Save Romania Union Party (USR) were mentioned by 3% of respondents each.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, when asked directly about Ilie Bolojan, 76% of participants said he was a rather bad leader for Romania, 18% rated him as rather good, while 62% said that he has not carried out any reform.<\/p>\n<p>According to the survey, Romanians\u2019 greatest fear for the coming period is a possible economic crisis, an option indicated by 31% of study participants. This is followed by concern about their children\u2019s future (20%), the escalation of the war in Ukraine (18%), health problems (11%), and hatred in society (11%).<\/p>\n<p>Regarding voting options, if parliamentary elections were to take place next Sunday, the distribution of percentages among all those who expressed an option was as follows: AUR with 36%, PSD with 23%, PNL with 16%, USR with 8%, UDMR with 5%, SOS Romania at 3%, and SENS at 2%.<\/p>\n<p>Of the total adult population surveyed, 20% say they do not know or are undecided, while 15% say they would not go to vote.<\/p>\n<p>The survey company behind the poll, Avangarde, is owned by sociologist Marius Pieleanu, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/snoop.ro\/abuzuri-fara-sanctiuni-cazul-sociologului-marius-pieleanu-si-esecul-sistemului-la-snspa\/\">accused of sexual abuse last year<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overall, the survey showed a high level of dissatisfaction. Around 88% of respondents believe that Romania is heading in the wrong direction, while only 8% consider the direction to be good, with the remaining 4% representing undecided respondents or non-responses. Romania has been without a fully empowered government since May 5, after the previous administration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}