Assignment: Dicing with democracy? Romania’s cancelled election

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  I'm Tessa Dunlop and this is assignment from Romania.

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  The countries changed massively since I first went there in the early 1990s.

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  Nowadays it's a member of the European Union and of NATO.

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  Like many others,

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  I was shocked when the presidential election was suddenly cancelled in December after the first round of voting.

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  So I travelled to Bucharest to find out what was going on.

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  Following hashtags, following accounts,

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  following specific viral videos in order to create a network of how this narrative is being pushed online.

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  Madalina Vojna in her 20s plays a crucial role in this story.

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  She's the lead researcher at an independent think tank expert forum based in Romania's capital,

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  Bucharest.

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  My focus is researching the information space in the Black Sea region with the focus on Romania and the Republic of Moldova.

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  What we do and what we did in the last presidential elections is

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  that we are looking at all the political candidates and what is their performance online,

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  what are the narratives and what are the tactics, techniques used by them to promote themselves.

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  Things took a sinister turn when last September,

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  Maddalena started looking at what was happening ahead of elections in the neighbouring Republic of Moldova.

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  But we ended up in a rabbit hole in Romania,

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