Caminian News Thread Știri din Câminia (CA)
Θέμα Ειδήσεων της Καμινίας (ΔΕ)
Správy o Camunsku (ŽI) Media guide:
Political pressure on journalists: Moderate risk, in spite of legal protection
Media ownership: Historically monopolised, however increasing state and independent-public sectors
Most popular types of media consumption: TV and Internet/Social media (~21.9mn, or 92.2%, of Caminia use the Internet as of February 2025)
Print readership: Collapsed, press readership roughly 60% down since 1998, and concentrated amongst older readers & oligopolised market
National broadcaster: TVC (Televiziunea Cămină) Notable media: Press/online: - Ast247.net
- Independentul
- Libertate.net
- rds.net - Rețeaua de Solidaritate
- TopNews.net News agencies: - Inalpress
- 98News (owned by SRC, state-owned radio broadcaster) Television:
- CaminiaTV
- Canalul1
- Cinci TV
- Poporului
- RDS (Rețeaua de Solidaritate)
- SIR
- Totală
- TVC Radio:
- Conţine Radio - Coravei FM (continental)
- Iavației FM
- Independenţă FM
- Noul Mileniu FM
- Progresiv FM
- Pentru Câminia FM / "PCFM" (owned by SRC, state-owned radio broadcaster)
- Top FM
New Right re-elect Grigore Iordanescu for tenth term as leader - Lizuca Hutopila, 14 July, 2025
-
One year on from the (near-)victory of his party in the 2024 elections which left it the largest party but "high and dry" without coalition partners, the firebrand veteran leader of the far-right Grigore Iordanescu has been re-elected unanimously by his party delegates at the 2025 Convenția conservatoare, or "Conservative Convention".
This marks the start of his tenth consecutive three-year term since his first election as party leader shortly after the collapse of the People's Socialist State (SSPC) in 1998. In his victory speech, Iordanescu promised to "continue the fight against the vested interest groups and liberal socio-political elite culture that Caminia has been captured by in the last ten years."
Amongst the member ballot, which constitutes 50% of the overall ballot, 478,809 (97.7%) of its 490,128 members voted in favour of Iordanescu remaining as leader into the next three-year term. Each and every delegate from the prefectures of Caminia also assented to this, meaning that the overall ballot was 98.8% in favour of Iordanescu, the highest margin since 2001 when the party had just 6,000 members.
The last three-year term of Iordanescu's leadership has seen the party dramatically overhaul its image and its position in Caminian politics. As Iordanescu told his party congress last December, "we are now the pillar that holds the right up, and we will slash the Achilles' heel of Caminia, which is its political left." The party won 37% of the vote and 205 of the 490 seats in the Camera last year, up from 22% and 122 seats in 2020; this put it well ahead of the old PCS, a result which caused the incumbent Prime Minister Gabriel Rădulescu to be dislodged from power and resign inauspiciously. The second-place party, REÎNNOI!, led by Marta Istrati, won 28% of the vote and 150 seats, and has since been governing in a coalition with the PCS, PLD, and PRM, the traditional three parties of government. Istrati has faced declining popularity over the last year after austerity measures to restore Caminia's financial stability and reputation proved incredibly unpopular, and after her government has been blamed for continuing much of the problematic behaviour of the previous PCS and PLD governments due to their presence in the current coalition. As of 14 July, polling currently has the New Right party on 44%, well ahead of second-place REÎNNOI! on 21% and joint-third-place PCS and Green-Agrarians on 16%. The legalisation of same-sex marriage and partial decriminalisation of abortion has also mobilised much of Caminia's conservative, Orthodox voting bloc, causing Iordanescu to have even greater influence, added to a slow but steady stream of defections from the PCS and PLD to New Right by social conservative representatives angry at the government's apparent liberal, secular politics.
Prime Minister Marta Istrati (REÎNNOI!, pictured on the left) has spoken out against the New Right's re-election of Iordanescu, claiming that Iordanescu's re-election was "an attempt at dragging the old-fashioned hate of the Gavrilița years kicking and screaming into an era in which it has been soundly rejected," while claiming Iordanescu himself was a "mouth-foaming conspiracy-theorist who contributes nothing to Caminia except for thirty years of hot air." She nevertheless stated that she "looked forward to working with the opposition party leader."
Similarly, the Deputy Prime Minister and State Minister for Justice Rasvan Sollomovici (PCS) commented that New Right was "a circus that stopped being funny twenty years ago," and that Iordanescu "is an old man who was never fit for power."
Iordanescu has historically hit out against the government repeatedly to various different extents, stating that it has led to a "crisis in expertise" with its austerity measures, that it is a "leadweight dragging us backwards and down into oblivion," and that the government was "inserting nanochips into people like computers" through means such as delivered poll letters, drinking water, and 5G internet technology. He has also claimed that a Caminian moon landing in 1955 was covered up by successive governments, which he has promised that New Right would "reveal and expose as the international scandal that has done irreparable damage to our true place as the first nation on another celestial body." He also denies the existence of climate change, claiming that the "Suthero-Santonian cabal pedals the climate myth to force the world to import their energy instead of putting to use the resources that our God has bestowed upon us so graciously."
Iordanescu's deputy, the more understated conservative politician and ex-PLD representative Horatiu Stelymes, has congratulated Iordanescu and called for a "full investigation into the electoral wrongs committed by the liberal-socialists in government today." New Right continues to allege that the government threw away approximately 2.4 million votes, 97% of which it purports were for New Right candidates, which would have theoretically given New Right 47% of the vote and an absolute majority of seats. This allegation is as yet unsubstantiated, though continues to be spread across Caminian social media sources. Approximately 30% of Caminians agree with the statement "The 2024 election outcome was not democratically reached," an increase of 10% since 2024, at which point many right-wing voters believed that Iordanescu was exaggerating to draw attention to other forms of fraud and malpractice such as media centralisation under the previous PCS and PLD governments.
