Save Romania Union - Party of Liberty, Unity and Solidarity Alliance (USR PLUS) Alliance co-chair Dan Barna considers it "a sad thing" that only three out of ten Romanians went to the polls in the parliamentary elections, stating that the very low turnout leads to "strange results."
"The less good news is the unprecedented low turnout, the very small number of Romanians who decided to go to the polls and this is, from my point of view, a negative thing of these elections. The fact that on the one hand the political class has failed to deliver strong enough messages to understand this. But there is one more element. If we look at the United States - in the same pandemic and in a same truly dramatic situation, with a quarter of a million dead - yet there was the largest turnout in their history, which raises, somehow, a question mark about how much we care, as a society, about the direction our country has, because the fact that only three Romanians out of ten have decided to vote and say what they want Romania to look like is a sad thing. Absenteeism is not an answer to this problem, because absenteeism never gives solutions. There is bitter taste related to the low turnout," Barna told Digi24.
The USR PLUS leader rejected the hypothesis that the electorate would have taxed the Alliance because it did not join the government.