EU Parliament Election Looming

Interesting piece on how the Romanians are unmotivated for and unaware of the upcoming europarl elections, which contrasts with their usual political behavior:

To put this into context, Romanian elections are usually a frenzy of lively televised debates; floods of posters, leaflets, ads and volunteers in T-shirts; hurried visits to the villages with bags of flour and promises to peasants—and epic struggles within the parties to get onto the official list of candidates.

Author says nobody wants the plush job, not even Nadia Comaneci. And that low turnout allows the extremes to more easily field candidates.