The presidential elections in Romania, record, most often, different results in the urban environment compared to the rural one. Bucharest, within the 30 years since the fall of the communist regime, has produced results that have demonstrated the clear desire of the voters from a certain post-communist stage of the presidential elections. The study is based on analyzing the results from all the post-communist presidential elections, on administrative units, that is, on the six constituent sectors of Bucharest. The method of analysis resides in tracking the statistical data provided by BEC correlated with the empirical results obtained by questionnaires carried out by us, in each sector. This additional analysis allows us to obtain the data regarding the reason that determined the election of a candidate for the position of president of Romania. The results confirm the relationship between the reason for the election and the political belonging of the candidates, both in the first round, as well as on what concerns the final result obtained in the second round. Bucharest remains a 0reference milestone in terms of political orientation and openness to democracy and European politics. Bucharest, as a resident population of a large city, wants an opening to what liberal politics and European democracy offer. Regarding the structure by age and socio-professional groups or as a level of education, Bucharest voters demonstrate the most balanced values. These very values are an indicator of the tendency of liberalism in presidential elections.

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Social media has become a widely used way of promotion in recent years, including in the field of tourism, facilitating fast communication between users, being available to anyone with a device with the possibility of connecting to the Internet. The purpose of this research is to identify the importance of social media in promoting the cultural and recreational heritage in the vicinity of Bucharest, represented by the lake, forest and Snagov Monastery. The objectives of the study were: the analysis of the Facebook, Instagram and Twitter pages that promote the cultural and natural heritage of Snagov and the analysis of the promotional content on each platform. The results of the research revealed that although there are no pages to promote heritage elements in Snagov, the area remains known on social media, due to the communication between those who enjoyed this recreational space or visited the Snagov Monastery for tourism or religious purposes, but it is also worth mentioning the social media pages of the accommodation units that indirectly promote the heritage elements as well. The hashtag option favored the popularity of the area on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, but to a lesser extent in the direct or indirect promotion of tourism.

Agriculture represents a vital area in the life of all communities, not only of urban ones but also of rural ones. The town of Măgurele is situated in the south-western part of Bucharest Municipality with which it borders directly. Being a former village, in this town people are still engaged in agriculture, and the agricultural produce harvested in Măgurele supply the food markets in the western and and southern parts of the capital. Our study has the objective of presenting the importance of this field of economic activity, trying to emphasize the importance of its role in the life of the small urban community in Măgurele. The research also aims at presenting the financial contribution of agriculture for the local farmers, trying to establish the increase in population income due to agricultural activities. The research methodology had as a first stage the analysis of the questionnaire applied to a sample of 217 people residing in the town of Măgurele who are engaged in organic agriculture, part of them using modern means while the other part uses traditional means. A second stage was represented by grouping the respondents in age groups and means used in agricultural production. Finally, agricultural productions over several years were analysed taking into account the age groups. Results show that agricultural production of farmers in the group age 35-55 who used modern agricultural means and techniques was higher on surface unit, thing was also visible in the higher income as compared to the agricultural production of farmers over 55 years old who use traditional means and techniques which was lower on surface unit and therefore the income obtained was lower. Overall, the population income obtained from agriculture rose, even if not significantly, but in the current circumstances any additional income is auspicious. Analysing the evolution of agricultural production in the past years it can be ascertained that the transition to organic agriculture is on an ascending trend. The research is currently in the beginning stage, but in the future we aim to track the progress of the phenomenon and its socio-economic impact on the study area.

Electoral periods have always been a challenge for representative parties to gain new supporters, but also to get closer to the population, and the context of the Coronavirus pandemic has been a barrier to traditional election campaigns, requiring their relocation to the online environment. The main target of the online campaigns was the young population, while the street election campaigns wanted to convince the majority of the adult population, who do not spend much of their time in the online field. The central objective of the study was to identify voting trends at the national level, but also at the regional level. The secondary objective of the study was to identify the influence of national minorities in the Romanian legislative elections, based on a significant population of ethnic Hungarians in certain counties. The aim of the study was to provide a point of support for electoral statistics and to be translocated to cartographic materials, to facilitate their understanding. The results of the study certify that there is a regionalization of the electoral results, with small exceptions, and the party representing the ethnic Hungarians won detachedly in the counties where they are the majority.