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SUMMARY:Journalist Talks: Neo-fascism in Romanian politics and the role of social media
DESCRIPTION:Călin Georgescu’s success in the first round of the presidential elections in Romania in 2024 took many by surprise. A candidate with little notoriety in mainstream media\, not included in the political surveys\, with (neo)fascist affinities and an anti-science\, conspiracist worldview\, often reiterating Kremlin’s narratives\, managed to win the votes of over two million Romanians. However\, Călin Georgescu was not a new entry on the political scene\, and his radical far-right views are the expression of a larger phenomenon: the resurgence of fascist thinking\, that started as soon as the ‘90s and had its roots even deeper\, in national-communism. This talk will provide an overview of the post-’89 build-up of a neo-fascist mindset and infrastructure that set the stage for its breakthrough into mainstream politics in the 2020 elections\, when the populist right-wing party with neo-fascist overtones AUR gained seats in parliament. This moment marked the mainstreamization of far-right discourse\, which was weaponized by Călin Georgescu in his 2024 electoral success. Social media such as Facebook and TikTok also played a role in boosting far right and neo-fascist parties and candidates\, showing how the democratizing potential of such platforms can be weaponized to subvert democracy. \nAdina Marincea is a journalist and researcher at the “Elie Wiesel” National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania. \nJournalist Talks Series is a part of the seeFField project of the University Regensburg in cooperation with the Volkshochschule Regensburg. \n 
URL:https://seeffield.app.uni-regensburg.de/event/journalist-talks-neo-fascism-in-romanian-politics-and-the-role-of-social-media/
LOCATION:VHS\, Thon-Dittmer-Palais\, Haidplatz 8\, R 219
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