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00:00These young Romanians take to the streets of Bucharest each night after far-right candidate Călin Georgescu
00:06won the first round of the country's presidential election.
00:12His fascist,
00:14ultra-nationalistic, pro-Russian topics are leading our country towards a very risky and dangerous territory.
00:21The nationalist candidate won over 22% of the votes, one-third of his supporters are young people.
00:34A vote cast against the system that shows disillusion with the main parties as a result of corruption,
00:40inflation and fears linked to the Ukraine war.
00:46A wide majority of young people choose him as a form of protest and justice.
00:52Călin Georgescu became popular in only a few weeks mainly through the social network TikTok.
01:02I heard about him now, a few days before the election.
01:05I didn't know who to vote for and what to do. In the first video that I saw, he speaks about the fact that we need change.
01:13His videos were watched by millions of people and massively shared among voters.
01:18A movement fueled by anger, largely overlooked by polling institutes.
01:27TikTok is a platform where it's very easy to reach many people.
01:32TikTok's algorithm is more volatile than other social networks. It's like when you throw a stone into a lake,
01:39there's a ricochet effect that becomes bigger and bigger.
01:42That's how TikTok works.
01:49Călin Georgescu is set to face center-right candidate Elena Lasconi during the runoff,
01:54but the country is on hold after the Constitutional Court asked for a recount of the ballots.