(19 Apr 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bucharest, Romania – 14 April 2025
1. Various of Romanian Palace of Parliament, a building that hosts headquarters of the Romanian Constitutional Court, as seen on a plaque at one of the entrances
2. Various of posters of electoral candidates
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bucharest, Romania – 15 April 2025
3. Candidate Elena Lasconi at campaign headquarters, talking
4. SOUNDBITE (Romanian) Elena Lasconi, candidate who came second and is participating in the new May election:
“What happened last year, it was very serious and from my point of view, at that time it was very anti-democratic because we didn’t see very clear proof at that time. It’s true there was a state of fear."
5. Close of camera
6. SOUNDBITE (Romanian) Elena Lasconi, candidate who came second and is participating in the new May election:
“We are indeed in a very complicated state from a geopolitical point of view and we need now a leader that knows how to communicate and to socialise because, at the end of the day, politics means inter-human relations.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bucharest, Romania – 14 April 2025
7. Various of posters of candidates
8. Various of Romanian parliament and Romanian flag
9. SOUNDBITE (Romanian) Cristian Andrei, political consultant based in Bucharest:
“There are definitely many people that are not pleased and they consider all the explanations given up to now are not enough. It’s important to keep reminding the public of what happened: that we were facing a campaign that attempted to hijack Romania’s democracy using unorthodox and illegal means.”
10. Romanian Parliament
11. Wide of analyst Septimius Parvu in his office
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Septimius Parvu, coordinator of the electoral program at Expert Forum, a pro-democracy think-tank:
“Anyway I think the public trust in political parties, in public institutions, in the state generally was quite low but I think this (annulation of last year’s election) dislocated even more the trust in the stability of the (electoral) process.“
13. Camera
14. SOUNDBITE (Romanian) Septimius Parvu, coordinator of the electoral program at Expert Forum, a pro-democracy think-tank:
‘’And all these things created an earthquake which I think it would leave marks on the longer term, on the trust in democracy and in the electoral process."
15. Street scene
16. SOUNDBITE (Romanian) Octavian Frecea, movie director:
“(The Romanian society) is a bit divided, it’s fragmented in a way as a reaction. The word (fragmented) is a bit tough but this is the truth.”
17. Street scene
18. SOUNDBITE (Romanian) Octavian Frecea, movie director:
“One cannot just be isolated, only an isolated society isn’t influenced from the outside. We would have to endure these influences and to direct them so that they don’t flip us over."
19. Street scene
20. SOUNDBITE (Romanian) Lucian (last name not given), 67, retired:
“Any president (that might come) must be a sovereignist because we are not a colony. But this doesn’t mean we should not have relations with other presidents and countries but I don’t see anyone standing up in a conversation with an important politician (from abroad)."
21. Street scene
22. SOUNDBITE (Romanian) Lucian (last name not given), 67, retired:
“The danger comes from the Russians…we don’t want to wake up with them at the helm of the country like they wanted to do with the other one (politician Calin Georgescu) at the first elections (annulled election of 2024)."
23. Various of electoral posters
STORYLINE:
Moscow has denied it meddled.
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