The article proposes to analyse the vocabulary of the candidates Victor Ponta and Klaus Iohannis in the televised debate of the 2014 presidential campaign. The vocabulary of both candidates is characterized by the presence of neologisms, but their use is different for each candidate: the desire to respect the norms of politically correct language in the former and the attempt to speak in a neat style in the second. Colloquial terms are present in the language of both debaters: at Victor Ponta to demonstrate the ignorance of his political opponent, at Klaus Iohannis to ironize his counter-candidate. Each uses terms from the jargon of their profession, legal at Victor Ponta and school at Klaus Iohannis. A peculiarity of Klaus Iohannis' vocabulary is the presence of lexical and pronunciation variants from his native region. The numerous enumerations, the frequency of numbers, acronyms, clichs and verbal automatisms lead to a rigid and ambiguous style in the case of Victor Ponta. Short sentences, without unnecessary words, the presence of neologisms and concrete terms lead in Klaus Iohannis to a concise and precise style, whose main characteristics are irony and orality.