News Focus: PSD has a new president - Sorin Grindeanu. Impact online
The first round of this year's presidential elections has led to the resignation of Marcel Ciolacu as premier and president of the PSD, with the Social Democrats waiting for the second round to take place before electing a new leader.
The Social Democratic Party will nominate its new leadership in the fall, when the congress is scheduled to take place, opting for an interim president - Sorin Grindeanu.
According to data aggregated and analyzed with NewsVibe, a real-time monitoring and analysis software of online conversations, online mentions of Sorin Grindeanu peaked in the last month, when he was appointed as interim president of PSD. But it was not the only episode that generated visibility.
In the campaign between the two rounds, Sorin Grindeanu's interventions - in which he emphasized his conviction that Romania could not leave the EU if the elections were won by George Simion - attracted numerous mentions. During the same period, he had a long-distance feud with former president Traian Băsescu and sent messages on the salary situation at the Bucharest Airports National Company and on projects managed by the ministry.
Since his election as head of the PSD, Sorin Grindeanu's name has been mentioned especially in contexts relating to the formation of a new parliamentary majority for the investiture of a new government and in those related to major infrastructure projects.
Grafic NewsVibe. Evolution in the number of mentions of Sorin Grindeanu and their total impact over the last month
Predominant sources
The top sources that mentioned Sorin Grindeanu most frequently in the last month are almost exclusively generalist and news websites and Facebook pages affiliated to these publications.
The top 15 sources by number of mentions of Sorin Grindeanu include the Facebook page stiripesurse.ro and the sites stiripesurse.ro, Adevărul, Gândul, EVZ.ro and PS News, each with more than 25 references to the new PSD leader. An economics-specific platform (Capital) and an alternative platform (ecopolitic.ro) also stand out in the top.
Grafic NewsVibe. Top relevant web sources that have referred to Sorin Grindeanu, in the last month
Top keywords mentioned
The entities most frequently included in articles from web sources and Facebook posts mentioning the name Sorin Grindeanu indicate a predominant focus on political topics, but also including those from the governmental spectrum.
Thus, terms such as PSD, Marcel Ciolacu (replaced by Sorin Grindeanu as PSD head), Romania, Minister of Transport (government position held by a social-democrat), Daniel Băluță (mayor of the 4th Sector, who co-candidated Sorin Grindeanu for the position of interim president of PSD),
Grafic NewsVibe. Top entities mentioned in the context of mentions of Sorin Grindeanu in the last month
Evaluating the tone of communication
The NewsVibe platform has created an advanced sentiment analysis system that uses artificial intelligence, specially trained algorithms and LLM-type 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 assessment of the tone of online conversation about Sorin Grindeanu in the last month
Although most of the mentions (82%) are evaluated as neutral, the negative ones are almost three times more than the positive ones (13% vs. 5%). The negative tone of the conversations around the name Sorin Grindeanu was mainly influenced by the discussions on the formation of a new government, the messages sent during the election campaign between the two rounds, but also by the attacks launched against him by media sources or other politicians, such as Victor Ponta, after his election as PSD leader.
Emoji and hashtags
The most commonly used emoji in Facebook posts indicate states of alertness, goals achieved, astonishment, but also symbols associated with transportation - such as cars, roads, construction machinery or traffic restriction signs. These visual choices reflect the dominant themes of the messages and how the content is supported to grab the audience's attention.
Grafic NewsVibe. Top emoji used on Facebook in conversations about Sorin Grindeanu in the last month
As for the hashtags most commonly used in Facebook posts, the focus falls on those referring to political topics: #PSD, #president, without missing, however, tags such as #ministrultransporturilor.
Grafic NewsVibe. Top hashtags used on Facebook in conversations about Sorin Grindeanu, in the last month
Local resources
More than a third of mentions about Sorin Grindeanu come from locally relevant sources. In general, interest is higher in the Central and Western counties, as well as in the North of Moldova.
Gorj, Caraș-Severin, Timiș and Bihor stand out.Lower interest is noted in the counties of Eastern Moldova, Northern Romania and, in particular, in Harghita and Covasna.
Grafic NewsVibe. Relevant local sources who mentioned Sorin Grindeanu in the last month
The analysis indicates a significant increase in Sorin Grindeanu's online visibility, especially following his election as interim president of the PSD, but with no lack of interest from online sources in the work managed by the Ministry of Transport.
*****Syndicated using a monitoring feed provided by NewsVibe Romania. The analysis, data and images presented were enhanced with Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence tools.
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