{"id":3192,"date":"2025-01-06T07:59:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T07:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=3192"},"modified":"2025-01-06T07:59:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T07:59:51","slug":"survey-two-in-three-romanians-believe-scrapping-presidential-elections-was-a-bad-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=3192","title":{"rendered":"Survey: Two in three Romanians believe scrapping presidential elections was a bad decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decision of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/ccr-annuls-presidential-elections-romania-december-2024\" target=\"_blank\">Romanian Constitutional Court (CCR) to annul the presidential elections<\/a> is considered by most respondents (28%) as the most important event of the year 2024 in Romania, according to an IRES telephone survey.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CCR&#8217;s decision to cancel the first round of the presidential elections is considered good by just over a third (35%) of survey participants, while 62% of respondents believe it was a bad decision.<\/p>\n<p>When asked what their voting option would have been for the second round of the presidential elections, if the first round had not been canceled by the CCR, 7% of those surveyed said they would not have voted, 5% said they would have canceled their vote or cast a blank ballot, and one in 10 respondents do not know what they would have done or do not answer. Another 29% would have voted for Elena Laconi, the USR candidate, while 48% would have voted for independent candidate C\u0103lin Georgescu.<\/p>\n<p>The survey was conducted by telephone between December 17 and 20, 2024, and the sample size was 964 respondents.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andrii Yalanskyi\/ Dreamstime<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decision of the Romanian Constitutional Court (CCR) to annul the presidential elections is considered by most respondents (28%) as the most important event of the year 2024 in Romania, according to an IRES telephone survey.\u00a0 CCR&#8217;s decision to cancel the first round of the presidential elections is considered good by just over a third [&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-3192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192","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=3192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}