{"id":2866,"date":"2024-12-04T09:08:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T09:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=2866"},"modified":"2024-12-04T09:08:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T09:08:59","slug":"elena-lasconi-announces-pro-europe-rally-in-bucharest-ahead-of-presidential-runoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=2866","title":{"rendered":"Elena Lasconi announces pro-Europe rally in Bucharest ahead of presidential runoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Presidential candidate <strong>Elena Lasconi<\/strong>, the leader of the reformist party Save Romania Union (USR), announced a pro-European rally in Bucharest&#8217;s Victoriei Square this Thursday, December 5.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Join me in the march to support European values,&#8221; Lasconi urged in a message shared Tuesday evening. The rally is scheduled for 5:00 PM in Victorei Square, as detailed in the official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1271508200833199?locale=ro_RO\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook event<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/elena-lasconi-reformist-leader-romania-presidential-elections\" target=\"_blank\">Elena Lasconi<\/a> advanced to the second round of Romania&#8217;s presidential elections, scheduled for December 8, alongside ultranationalist independent candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/calin-georgescu-suprise-winner-romania-presidential-elections\" target=\"_blank\">C\u0103lin Georgescu<\/a>. She has repeatedly positioned herself as pro-Europe and pro-democracy, opposing Georgescu&#8217;s controversial stance on Romania&#8217;s EU and NATO membership.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In older interviews and statements, ultranationalist C\u0103lin Georgescu, the frontrunner in the first round with roughly 2.1 million votes, has questioned Romania&#8217;s membership in the EU and NATO. As these declarations started to surface after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/romania-presidential-elections-first-round-final-results-2024\" target=\"_blank\">his shocking first-round win<\/a>, young people and students across Romania <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/romanian-students-protest-calin-georgescu-fourth-day-nov-2024\" target=\"_blank\">began taking to the streets<\/a> to voice their support for European democracy and opposition to nationalist and extremist ideologies.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the presidential runoff between Lasconi and Georgescu has been shaping up to be a contest between pro-European reformism and ultranationalist skepticism.<\/p>\n<p>irina.marica@romania-insider.com<\/p>\n<p>(Photo source:\u00a0<em>Inquam Photos \/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquamphotos.com\/users\/adriananeagoe\">Adriana\u00a0Neagoe<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presidential candidate Elena Lasconi, the leader of the reformist party Save Romania Union (USR), announced a pro-European rally in Bucharest&#8217;s Victoriei Square this Thursday, December 5.\u00a0 &#8220;Join me in the march to support European values,&#8221; Lasconi urged in a message shared Tuesday evening. The rally is scheduled for 5:00 PM in Victorei Square, as detailed [&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-2866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866","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=2866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}