ProDem Researcher Dana S. Trif will hold a talk on Protests, Social Movements, and Movement Parties: Reinventing “the People” in Romania’s 2017 Pro-Democracy Protests at the 13th IPA Conference. The 2017 anti-corruption, pro-justice marches in Romania have arguably given birth to a social movement – #Rezist – and one party movement USR PLUS. Three years since the biggest Romanian street protests post-1989, this Revolution 2.0 effectively stopped the slip towards illiberalism in Romania, bringing USR PLUS into the present coalition government. Dana’s talk analyzes the discursive change surrounding the 2017 protests and the birth of #Rezist and USR PLUS showing how these hegemonic reconfigurations led to a new discursive reconstruction of the “people” and interrogating the ideological makeup of this emerging collective identity.