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Romania in the Covid Era: Between Corona Crisis and Constitutional Crisis

  • Bianca Selejan-Gutan

Journal volume & issue
no. 2366-7044

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In Romania, the sanitary crisis caused by the SARS-COV-2 pandemic started during an existing political crisis and overlapped, at a few crucial moments, with a constitutional crisis. The fact that 2020 is an electoral year had an important impact on the crisis management: on the one hand, the political conflicts increased, but, on the other hand, the fact that the power did not belong to the same political majority hindered potential abuses of one of the actors, especially of the President.

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