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The composition of lists of candidates represents an important political strategy for different types of elections, including European elections. The opportunity for women politicians from Romania to represent the electorate in the European Parliament (EP) is significantly higher than in national political competitions. Exiling female politicians in Romania to the EP elections gives them the chance to have more important public roles within the internal structures of the parties they are part of, where ‘women are mostly responsible with secretarial positions, act as media liaisons and chair party committees geared towards “family and social issues” and are very rarely included in de facto decision-making at top party levels’.1 Even though placing the female politicians in Romania in eligible places for the EP ‘could be considered an image strategy of the Romanian political parties’,2 one must, however, take into consideration the positive effects of this policy as, once they get elected, most of them start developing successful political careers on their own.
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Branea, S. (2017). Outline of Female Candidates in Romania’s EP Elections. In: Boicu, R., Branea, S., Stefanel, A. (eds) Political Communication and European Parliamentary Elections in Times of Crisis. Political Campaigning and Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58591-2_10
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