Dragoman, Dragoș: La recomposition du champ politique régional en Roumanie. Le succès du Forum Allemand à Sibiu/Hermannstadt. In: Studia Politica. Romanian Political Science Review. Vol/An. 5. (2005) Nr. 1. pp. 181 – 201.

The electoral success of a political party representing a small German community in a largely majoritarian Romanian city was a great surprise in the 2004 local elections. The author explain these results by the good ethnic relations, which differ somehow from the regional pattern – a “German model” based on protestant values such honesty, order and hard working – and which bypass the tensions characterizing, for example, the Romanian-Hungarian relations in Transylvania. Another factor is the relative performance of the administration directed by the Saxon mayor of Sibiu and candidate of the German party. The economic take-off and the public investments were a success of the mayor, but finally they turned into a political gain for the German party. However, such an administrative performance would be useless in the context of consistent communitarian tensions, which could rally masses behind conflicting leaders. All in all, these factors describe an unusual electoral victory for a regional context still marked by ethnic distrust.

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