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The article examines the evolution of grass-root movements in Africa after 2011 in the electoral context marked by the incumbent president's plan to preserve power indefinitely. A case study on the Balai citoyen (citizen broom) movement is proposed. The article aims to identify the logic, the rhetoric and the mobilization that this youth civil movement proposes in the context of the 2013-2014 contestation of the regime. A success story that continues also after the president's fall, in October 2014, and translates into a mobilization that converts the revolutionary logic of the movement into the classic perspective assumed by pressure groups.

The article examines the evolution of inter-party mobility in the post-communist Romanian Parliament, confirming that the practice has been a constant phenomenon, growing continuously after 1992. Political mobility is analysed from a double perspective, that of political representation and that of political parties. The case study on the 2008-2012 legislature reveals that beyond the quantitative aspect, the mobility of MPs became a real factor of instability, changing the majority in the Parliament and, as such, triggering the government's dismissal. Deputies and senators changing party affiliation produced, for the first time after the fall of the communist regime, an alternation of power between elections.

The article briefly presents the way in which the codification of the local referendum has been made in Romania after the fall of the communist regime. Local referendum is analyzed as a form of direct democracy and as an important procedure in the sense of the democratization of the local level. A case study on the consultations that took place in 2009 and 2010 is presented, emphasizing the difficulty of local authorities to mobilize the citizens to these referendums.

The article examines the political configuration of elected institutions in Bucharest, the capital of Romania. After offering an overview of the evolution of the electoral setting up of local government in Bucharest, we explain the particularities of the capital within the Romanian administrative and political framework. We then focus our analysis on local party politics since 1992, on the basis of a cross examination of the various electoral results for the city hall in the 1990s and 2000s. Our analysis shows a double trend: on the one hand, a significant reduction of the number of political parties acting at the municipality level is noticeable; on the other hand, we can observe that whereas the scenario of a single party or coalition governing undisputedly the city hall and its sub-units was valid in the 1990s, it started to be refuted since the beginning of the 2000s.

CHRONOLOGY OF THE ROMANIAN POLITICAL LIFE - OCTOBER 1, 2022 ̶ MARCH 31, 2023

CHRONOLOGY OF THE ROMANIAN POLITICAL LIFE APRIL 01 - SEPTEMBER 30, 2023