A mandate for reform
Cristian Pîrvulescu translated by Cosmin GhidoveanuEnglish Section / 25 noiembrie 2019
At the time I wrote these lines, five hours before the polls closed, Klaus Iohannis had a clear victory. No surprise! All indicators, throughout the day, anticipated a difference of at least 20% between Klaus Iohannis and his counter-candidate: significantly higher voting presence in the Diaspora compared to the first round; higher attendance after 11 o'clock compared to the first round, reaching more than 2% at 16:00; the higher number of urban voters; numerical mobilization - not percentage, because the percentage misleads as long as the population to which it is related is small - of the electorate of urbanized and economically dynamic counties (in Bucharest alone the number of voters that had gone out to vote by 4 PM o'clock was bigger than that of voters in six counties dominated by the PSD, such as Dolj, Gorj, Olt, Giurgiu, Mehedinţi and Teleorman, and outside Bucharest, there were about 250,000 voters in Timiş, Cluj, Prahova, Constanţa and Iaşi).