VOTE Generation: Two young people start campaign encouraging Romania’s youngsters to vote

For many years, youth voter turnout has been low in Romania - a reality mainly visible at the local and general elections (both scheduled again for this year). But Cristi Drăgan and Tushar Advani are two young people who decided to do something about it: they launched the Generatia VOT (VOTE Generation) initiative, using the social media and simple yet catchy messages to encourage the country's youth to go to the polls.

At the 2016 local and general elections, it was clear once again that the low youth voter turnout is a significant problem for Romania: only about 40% of young people between 18 and 24 years old voted in the local elections, and less than a third went to the polls at the general elections. And the reasons are many and varied. The initiators of Generatia VOT said in a press release, for example, that many youngsters see politics as a relatively dull and insipid subject, "because it often comes dressed as a subject for adults." Thus, this movement "has prepared a change of look for politics."