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Significance The two parties are attempting to keep their opponents at bay, especially the national-conservative Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), by running jointly in the European Parliament elections and re-designing the electoral calendar to their advantage. Impacts Efforts by the governing parties to engineer the electoral calendar to improve their chances of staying in power risk undermining democracy. Coalition spats over electoral strategy risk distracting from political and economic issues and deepening public rejection. The removal of Bucharest’s mayor would give real estate developers a freer hand to pursue large, often controversial construction projects.
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