THE ROMANIAN ELECTION OF 1946 IN THE NORWEGIAN PRESS
THE ROMANIAN ELECTION OF 1946 IN THE NORWEGIAN PRESS

Summary/Abstract: The study analyses how the Norwegian Press presented the Romanian parliamentary election of 19 November 1946. The author studied editorials, already translated in Romanian by the Romanian Legation in Oslo at that time, and found at the Diplomatic Archives of the Romanian Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Bucharest. As it has promised to the United States and British Governments in order to be recognized by those two great powers, the Groza Government, backed by the occupying Soviets, had to organize the election. The most important Norwegian press depicted the violence and pressure on the opposition to stop meetings, the fact that the government’s representatives banished the opposition’s ones from the polling places, how the government bought votes on the black market, how a part of the people used more than one vote, or how the oppositions’ supporters were not allowed to vote. Despite less important far-left newspapers, the most prestigious Norwegian newspapers concluded that the election was neither fair or free.

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