“To demonize young people is a big mistake” – UBB Rector Daniel David, about the survey in which most of the young people say they will vote for AUR

Professor Daniel David, rector of Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, intervenes in the debate generated by the national survey that puts AUR in the top of young people’s preferences and proposes another perspective. He says, in an interview with HotNews.ro, that it should be accepted that there can be people, even young people with schooling, who find themselves in their message and that “it would be a mistake to demonize them”.

“Let’s take a different look at the survey that shows that most young people vote for AUR”, suggests Professor Daniel David. For him, what is more relevant is not that 15% of young people would vote for George Simion’s party, but that the remaining 85% would not support him.

HotNews.ro published on Saturday the first data of a survey carried out in March at the national level, which shows that the party led by George Simion would be the first to be voted for in the parliament, by young people between 18 and 35 years old, “if the elections were held on Sunday future”.

“I’m not that worried,” says Daniel David. But he is concerned about the distrust young people express towards the Presidency, Parliament or the government and believes that “frustration towards democratic institutions” leads them to the AUR. An anti-system vote.

“As long as AUR is an accepted party in Romanian democracy, we must also accept the fact that there can be people, even young people, even with schooling, who find themselves in their message. To demonize is a big mistake”, says Daniel David.

The full interview can be read on hotnews.ro.