{"id":748,"date":"2024-07-03T09:03:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T09:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=748"},"modified":"2024-07-03T09:03:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T09:03:28","slug":"survey-over-half-of-respondents-believe-romanias-future-president-should-be-an-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=748","title":{"rendered":"Survey: Over half of respondents believe Romania\u2019s future president should be an independent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than half (54.4%) of respondents to a recent INSCOP survey carried out for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.ro\/politic-intern\/sondaj-inscop-comanda-news-mult-jumatate-dintre-romani-parere-viitorul-presedinte-romaniei-ar-trebui-fie-lider-politic-independent-38-7-cred-acesta-ar-trebui-fie-reprezentantul-unui-partid-politic-1922400003002024070821652919\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News.ro<\/a> believe that the future president of Romania should be an independent political leader. At the same time, 38.7% would prefer a political party representative.<\/p>\n<p>About 4.6% are still undecided, and 2.2% decided not to answer.<\/p>\n<p>Most of those who would like Romania\u2019s next president to be an independent are Bucharesters (54%), residents of cities with over 90,000 inhabitants (58%), and residents of cities with less than 90,000 inhabitants (60%). Also, 40% of PSD (Social Democrats) voters, 44% of PNL (Liberals) voters, 49% of far-right party AUR voters, and 58% of USR voters want an independent president.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, 55% of PSD voters, 49% of PNL voters, 48% of AUR voters, and 35% of USR voters want a president who represents a political party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA party-independent president seems to be a more desirable profile for the Romanian population than a party representative. Regardless of the age category or the type of locality in which they live, Romanians have a stronger preference for a president independent of parties. The only categories in which the opinions are more balanced are the 60+ years of age and the residents of rural areas,\u201d said Remus \u015etefureac, director of INSCOP Research.<\/p>\n<p>INSCOP Research conducted the opinion poll for News.ro between June 19 and 27 using the CATI method (telephone interviews). A total of 1,100 people aged 18 and over participated in the survey.<\/p>\n<p>Romania will hold presidential elections later this year, but the exact dates are yet to be decided.<\/p>\n<p>irina.marica@romania-insider.com<\/p>\n<p>(Photo source:\u00a0<em>Inquam Photos \/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/inquamphotos.com\/users\/georgecalin\">George\u00a0C\u0103lin<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than half (54.4%) of respondents to a recent INSCOP survey carried out for News.ro believe that the future president of Romania should be an independent political leader. At the same time, 38.7% would prefer a political party representative. About 4.6% are still undecided, and 2.2% decided not to answer. Most of those who would [&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-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","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=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}