Neoliberalism restaged: austerity and the politics of threat in Romania

Alex Cistelecan and Stefan Baghiu

Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 2025, vol. 33, issue 3, 733-745

Abstract: The article dwells on the recent, restaged, Romanian presidential elections that took place in April. It first analyses the evolution and reconfiguration of the political scene after the cancelled elections in December 2024. The paper then discusses the campaign and the election results, emphasizing particularly the merits and pitfalls of interpreting the results along a geographical urban-rural divide. It closes by unpacking the global, or at least epochal relevance of the whole sequence of events, as first regional instantiation of the normal exceptionality and exceptional normality of authoritarian neoliberalism.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2025.2573082

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