{"id":4854,"date":"2025-05-05T09:01:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T09:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=4854"},"modified":"2025-05-05T09:01:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T09:01:39","slug":"president-of-opposition-party-usr-resigns-after-weak-score-in-romanias-presidential-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=4854","title":{"rendered":"President of opposition party USR resigns after weak score in Romania\u2019s presidential race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Elena Lasconi<\/strong>, the president of the Save Romania Union (USR), has resigned from the party\u2019s helm after the weak score she received in the first round of the presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p>Lasconi, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/usr-nicusor-dan-elena-lasconi-presidential-elections-april-2025\" target=\"_blank\">lost her own party\u2019s support for her presidential bid<\/a> a month before the elections, gathered some <a href=\"https:\/\/prezenta.roaep.ro\/prezidentiale04052025\/pv\/romania\/results\" target=\"_blank\">2.68% of the votes<\/a>. In the November 2024 presidential round, she won 19.17% of the votes and was headed for a second round against pro-Russia C\u0103lin Georgescu when the Constitutional Court decided to annul the elections amid concerns over foreign interference in the process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe time has come for a difficult decision. I am resigning from the position of USR president. I think this is what is correct, natural, and good at this time. I am resigning knowing that, in the last year, I have done everything in my power to make Romania better,\u201d Lasconi wrote in a social media post.<\/p>\n\n<p>Timi\u0219oara mayor Dominic Fritz is to take over as interim president of USR.<\/p>\n<p>The party\u2019s Political Committee will meet today to validate its support for Nicu\u0219or Dan in the second round of the presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/elena-lasconi-usr-informal-vote-bucharest-mayor-elections-2025\" target=\"_blank\">Elena Lasconi accuses USR of &#8216;political execution\u2019 after informal vote to back Bucharest mayor in presidential elections<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/usr-internal-divide-april-2025\" target=\"_blank\">Romania&#8217;s opposition party USR faces deep internal divide<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/elena-lasconi-reform-usr-april-2025\" target=\"_blank\">Romania\u2019s USR leader plans to \u201cdeeply restructure\u201d her party<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo: Adriana Neagoe\/ Inquam Photos)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>simona@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elena Lasconi, the president of the Save Romania Union (USR), has resigned from the party\u2019s helm after the weak score she received in the first round of the presidential elections. Lasconi, who lost her own party\u2019s support for her presidential bid a month before the elections, gathered some 2.68% of the votes. In the November [&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-4854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854","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=4854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}