DIGITAL DUEL by NewsVibe. TOP 5 matches in the Romanian online space, in the last week
Last week brought the announcement and adoption of deficit reduction measures by the Government, by the accountability in Parliament. On this occasion, AUR announced its intention to submit a motion of no confidence against the Government led by Ilie Bolojan, as well as to challenge these measures before the Constitutional Court. Also in the last few days, the first tensions within the ruling coalition have emerged, with the PSD publicly contesting several of the Executive's decisions, although the Social Democrats have formally taken them on board.
In the context of the debate on deficit reduction policies, the PNL is preparing for the Congress, and the first clues about the future leadership team of the Liberals have appeared in the public arena.
Not least, INSCOP has published a poll on voting intentions for the parties, which has surprised with the rise of AUR and the PSD falling to a historic low in sociological measures.
Despite a busy political agenda, the evolution of parties in terms of the number of mentions in relevant online sources was not uniform. According to data analyzed through NewsVibe, a real-time monitoring software for online conversations based on artificial intelligence, PSD and AUR saw consistent increases compared to last week - over 53% and over 112% respectively - while PNL and USR dropped slightly and SOS Romania plummeted to below 100 mentions.
Top 5 parties by online visibility
- Social Democratic Party - 2,064 mentions
- National Liberal Party - 1,209 mentions
- Save Romania Union - 845 mentions
- Alianța pentru Unirea Românilor - 529 mentions
- SOS Romania - 66 mentions
Note - only mentions from relevant online and social media sources (sources validated by the NewsVibe platform)
ComPARTIVE VISIBILITY AND IMPACT. The competitive analysis engine created by NewsVibe evaluates the strength of political actors to penetrate the online space, directly compared to their competitors.
70% of mentions about the parties and almost 65% of their estimated impact go to PSD and PNL, which remain the central actors of the government, but also the main protagonists of the coalition exchanges in the last few days. AUR continues to be the main voice of the opposition - although it generates only 11% of mentions, its estimated impact is 17%, higher than that of mentions of USR, another government actor.
We can therefore conclude that the attention of the relevant online sources has been mainly focused on PSD and PNL, as the governing parties, and AUR, as the main opposition party.
NewsVibe charts. Share of the number of mentions (left) and impact of mentions (right) about each of the parties, respectively, out of the cumulative total of mentions about all five
NETWORK ANALYSIS. The tool created by NewsVibe - semantic network analysis - allows visualizing the relationships between topics, personalities and themes, based on their co-appearance in the mentions collected from the most influential online sources in Romania. NewsVibe applies advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning methods to build interaction maps that highlight: the central actors of a conversation, how they are connected to each other, the clusters of topics, concepts and influencers (personalities and organizations) that have formed around an event, topic or idea.
Grafic NewsVibe. Semantic network semantics associated with online conversation about the 5 main parliamentary parties in the last week
What the analysis shows:
- The debate zone with the PSD at the center is the largest and most contoured. The PSD node dominates in size, signaling a very strong presence in online discussions. It is surrounded by terms such as Sorin Grindeanu and Bolojan (appearing in association with discussions about governance, but also polemical), indicating the involvement of PSD in governance issues, parliamentary support and political negotiations.
- The PNL and Romania centered discussions have a clear focus related to governance.
- The segment dominated by USR and The Bolojan government indicates a focus on USR's participation in the new executive and the debates on the responsibilities of its ministers.
- The placement of the Ilie Bolojan node between the PNL and PSD clusters suggests his positioning in online conversations as a pivotal actor between power structures.
- The zone of debates associated with AUR and George Simion is narrower, but well separated, with visible connections to PSD and PNL, indicating presence in critical and polemical conversations.
SENTIMENT. The NewsVibe platform has created an advanced sentiment analysis system that uses artificial intelligence, specially trained algorithms and LLM language models to detect nuances of tone - favorable, unfavorable or neutral - in the context of references to entities relevant to an online conversation.
Grafic NewsVibe. Automated online conversation tone ratings of the top 5 parliamentary parties by week
What the analysis shows:
- PSD is the largest and most visible term in the graph, appearing almost exclusively colored in red, indicating a negative tone, as do terms like Marcel Ciolacu or Grindeanu, suggesting a predominantly critical tone, centered on the legacy of the previous government and current political positioning.
- Entities such as USR, PNL and The Bolojan Government also appear to be mostly negatively connoted, as well as themes such as Salina Praid.
- Among the entities mostly present in a positive context are NATO, the United States of America and the European Union.
*****Syndicated via a monitoring feed provided by NewsVibe Romania. The analysis, data and images presented have been enhanced using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence tools.
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