(12 Mar 2025)
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Bucharest, Romania – 12 March 2025
1. Pan of presidential candidate Victor Ponta arriving at Central Electoral Bureau
2. Close of electoral bureau entrance sign
3. Wide of Ponta exiting electoral bureau
4. Mid of TV cameras
5. SOUNDBITE (Romanian) Victor Ponta, presidential candidate:
“I feel the need for a radical change, the system needs a reset and restart and a new beginning is needed. It is a system that failed during past years and that was against the people. The power needs to get back to people, to the ones that work hard both in and outside the country, pay taxes to those who have a sovereign right to healthcare, education, retirement and respect. And I want to make Romania our home again.”
6. Mid of supporters listening to speech
7. Wide of Ponta giving speech
8. Pan of Ponta leaving
STORYLINE:
Former social democrat Victor Ponta filed his candidacy for the Romanian presidency at the election bureau in Bucharest on Wednesday.
Ponta, who served as Romanian prime minister from 2012 to 2015, said he feeIs ‘’the need for a radical change."
"The power needs to get back to people," Ponta told supporters outside the electoral bureau.
"I want to make Romania our home again," he added.
On Tuesday, hundreds protested in central Bucharest a top Romanian court’s decision to reject an appeal by far-right politician Calin Georgescu to lift a ban on his candidacy in the presidential rerun. He won the first round of last year’s race before the same court annulled the election.
The ruling by the Constitutional Court in the capital Bucharest, which was unanimous, came two days after the Central Election Bureau rejected Georgescu’s candidacy for the May election.
The court’s decision on Tuesday is likely to inflame tensions in the European Union and in the NATO member country, which has been gripped by a protracted political crisis since the election was canceled last year.
The first round of the rerun is scheduled for May 4. If no candidate wins more than 50% of the ballots, a runoff will follow on May 18.
Romania’s far-right — which holds about a third of seats in the country’s legislature — will likely seek to replace Georgescu’s candidacy, the deadline for which is March 15 at midnight. Many observers have speculated that his close political ally, George Simion, could take up the mantle.
AP video by Nicolae Dumitrache
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