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The relationship between religion and politics has been subjected to diverse research approaches, the manners in which one influences the other being thoroughly analyzed. The present paper was focused on the same relationship, but in the presence of a third element, social media. Analyzing how these three interact, what can be found within the relations created between them and the effects of these interactions on society were the key objectives of the study. These types of information could be found and interpreted through a critical discourse analysis, done in a time, space and context frame relevant for the matter. The chosen frame was represented by the 2025 Romanian presidential elections campaign, the rerun organized after the cancellation of the 2024 rounds of elections. A strongly religious country, in a complex and complicated political moment could offer the right habitat for an in-depth view. By analyzing the Facebook posts of the four most voted candidates in the first round of elections, patterns and differences in how religion is used as discursive tool were identified and explored. Results showed that religion is a strategic favorite of Romanian candidates running for president. Even if they handled it in different ways, religion was present in an almost mandatory manner in the discourses posted by candidates on their social media pages. Even if the separate analysis of each candidate's use of religion offered information about their strategies, perhaps the most interesting aspects were found in the posts responding or referring to the opponents and to the content circulating online about them. Social media was proven to be the main element changing the realities of religion and dictating how it is used in political discourse, a lot of room for future research being left in this virtual space of interaction.

Nature has seen documents compiled by an anonymous whistle-blower indicating that more than half of Ponta's 432-page, Romanian- language thesis1 on the functioning of the International Criminal Court consists of duplicated text. [...]the thesis was republished with very minor amendments as a Romanian-language book in 2004 (ref. 2), and also forms the basis of a 2010 book on liability in international humanitarian law3. Ponta, leader of the Romanian Social Democratic Party, took office as prime minister only last month, replacing Emil Boc, who stepped down in February following protests against austerity measures that he had introduced.

The aim of this paper is to take a radiograph of Romania presidential elections of 2014, starting from a general framework in which these elections were held, continuing with issues and debates that characterized this context and ending with international reactions regarding the new elected-president in the foreign press and from the officials. This radiograph brings a series of questions: was the final result of these elections an accident? Was it an express of confidence for the successful candidate or the result of discontent with the current political system, a vote of hope? In this regard, I consider absolutely necessary to understand how the president was elected, the reasons behind this choice and especially if the hopes of voters will be reflected in the work of Klaus Iohannis during his term.

The 2016 parliamentary elections were a turning point in political campaigning in Romania. With the major changes brought to the law on political campaigns and party financing, the political parties searched new avenues to reach out effectively to voters. Our analysis focuses on the political campaign conducted by the Social Democrat Party (PSD) and closely investigates their political strategy, branding, targeting and the communication tools used during the 2016 parliamentary campaign, in order to identify the main approach changes and which communication tools were the most effective. To get our answers we centralize and compare the social media activity (FB posts, online campaigns), the activity on the television and the major outdoor campaigning elements - banners and posters. Also, we took into account the precampaign period used to increase awareness and to gently integrate the main political message among the voters.