Romanians share their views after far-right pro-Russia candidate Calin Georgescu secured a surprise lead in Romania's presidential election Monday. Georgescu was in pole position with almost 23 percent after the first round of voting, a political earthquake in the country of 19 million people.
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00:30I think it's time for young people to vote.
00:36Mr. Giorgescu made a very big ad on the TikTok platform,
00:41and considering that we young people, at the end of the day,
00:44still scroll on TikTok, I tell you,
00:47when Mr. Giorgescu approached me about 2-3 days before the election,
00:51anything I saw on TikTok seemed a bit too much to me.
00:54And automatically, people remembered...
00:58Maybe people were unhappy with what was happening,
01:04and they voted...
01:09They voted for... how can I put it? For a change.
01:15It was clearly a message for the political class,
01:19especially for the mainstream parties,
01:22who ruled, I mean, they were very transparent towards people.
01:27And this... I mean, something really needs to be done in that sense.
01:33On the other hand, it's also a signal of alarm,
01:36which we see...
01:40I would say, a kind of collapse of democracy,
01:43in a rather dangerous way.
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