Poll: As many as 65.2pct of Romanians felt that Romania was in danger in last six months

Almost two-thirds of Romanians (65.2%) felt that Romania was in great danger in the last six months, according to an opinion poll conducted between June 20 and 26 by INSCOP Research.As many as 37.1% of Romanians say that in the last six months they had the feeling that Romania was in danger to a very large extent, 28.1% to a large extent, 18.2% to a small extent, and 15.3% to a very small extent/not at all. 1.3% did not know or did not answer."After the worst health crisis of the last century and over three years of harsh war on Romania's borders caused by Russia's attack on Ukraine, the population's state of anxiety was high anyway. Against this background, the general feeling of the population that Romania is in danger has been amplified by the worst crisis of the democratic regime in the last three decades. That explains why two-thirds of Romanians (65.2%) say that in the last six months they had the feeling, to a very large extent or to a large extent, that the country was in danger. Political-ideological camps can interpret the sources of danger differently, but the intensity of anxiety is very high, regardless of the political options of the respondents. Also, there is no more relaxed category of the population in terms of the perception of danger, which further explains the state of tension in the Romanian society," explained director of INSCOP Research Remus Tefureac.Save Romania Union (USR) and Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) voters, people between 18 and 29 years old and residents of Bucharest are the categories that had the most feeling that Romania is in danger to a large and very large extent, according to the Inscop Research barometer.Particularly National Liberal Party (PNL) and Social Democratic Party (PSD) voters, as well as the inhabitants of small urban areas were the respondents that had the feeling that Romania was in danger to a small and very small extent/not at all.According to the poll, 14.5% of respondents believe that the danger comes from outside the country, and 14.5% from within it. More than a third (35.1%) consider that the danger comes equally from outside and from within. The share of non-responses is 1.3% of the total sample. The difference up to 100% is given by those who did not perceive a great danger.Being of the opinion that the danger comes from outside the country are especially PSD voters. AUR voters, people between 18 and 29 years old and public employees believe to a greater extent than the rest of the population that the danger comes from within the country. Believing that the danger comes equally from outside and from within are especially people with a higher education background, USR voters and residents of Bucharest and large urban areas.The data were collected between June 20 and 26, and the research method was the interview through questionnaire.The data were collected using telephone interviews, involving 1,150 people aged 18 and over.The maximum permissible error of the data is ? 2.9%, at a confidence level of 95%.