The most voted candidates on 2024 Romanian presidential elections by diaspora and at home

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by ArthRol

35 comments

  1. I am so angry for those who live in EU states and vote someone who is against this. Fucking hypocrites.

    However, thank you to the diaspora that voted in the interest of the country. Thank you Moldovan brothers for your votes too! You saved us ❤️

  2. Romanians in the east voting for the pro-EU, pro-NATO candidate, while those in the west, benefiting of Romania’s membership in those institutions, vote for the pro-russian neofascist nutjob. 

  4. seems like the further away you get from russia the more susceptible you become to their propaganda. many such cases

  7. Idiots living in EU voting for a Russian shill. WTF is wrong with some people?!

  8. I’m surprised by romanians in serbia. Since here russian propaganda is rampant for more than a decade.

  9. So those in Western Europe generally vote for the far right candidate with extreme views ? Fucking amazing.

    Frankly, if you do not live in a country, you shouldn’t get to vote on its elections. It is absurd some can make choices for a place they do not live in and make choices for others, with zero consequences for them.

    Same thing happens in Bulgaria. Those in the US and EU vote for absolute morons and when it invevitably leads to shitty situations, they carry on with their lives leaving us to deal with the shitstorm.

  10. the art of manipulation has been honed to a fine, concerning, degree. Socio political scholars should help us elucidate this mistery. I have been living in a bubble all this time.

  11. Diaspora don’t vote in the most batshit extremist candidate challenge.

    First they gave us Sosoaca At Home, then they gave us Sosoaca 2: Going international and now we get a remaster of legionarism through Georgescu.

  13. In Germany, the far-right was voted by 71% (a bit more than 100.000 votes).

  15. Call me controversial but I don’t think diaspora should vote. It’s not fair that people who don’t live in certain country decide what is best for people who actually live there.

  16. The ones in Russia didn’t vote for the pro russian guy, tells you lots about this election

  18. I don’t care about the bad blood in the past (and occasionally in the present) between us, I am saddened by the results. Best of wishes to all democracy supporting Romanians fom 🇭🇺

  19. What a joke, diaspora voting for a pro=Russia puppet anti-EU yet those in Europe are benefitting from EU passports and free movement.

  21. We should deeply study the phenomenon of how Eastern Europe has all the saner diasporas.

  22. I love Romania , Romania is the best country every with most beautiful people and buildings , i’d live there forever .

    -sent from my apartment in Berlin

  25. Sorry, Western euros, seems like you got the dumb ones 🤷‍♀️

  31. This is unfortunately a common trend. Nationals living abroad in well off countries vote for far right because they have no idea what it’s like back home.

    Turkish voters here in the Netherlands voted unanimously for Erdogan, despite him running Turkey to the ground

  32. The map is quite misleading as the numbers are very different between the countries. There is no “diaspora in the East”. The only really representative countries are Rep of Moldova, Italy, Spain, Germany and the UK. These are the main countries based on numbers of votes. You cannot make any arguments based on the fact that Lasconi won in Ukraine (49 votes out of a total 121 votes) or Russia (21 out 87 votes) and compare that to Germany, with 83k votes for the far right candidate.

    I’m as surprised as everybody that this guy got so many votes, but I’m not surprised that somebody like him is winning. There has been a very visible anti-EU sentiment growing in the Romanian “working class”, both inside the country and outside. The Romanian diaspora is not as settled as the Turkish diaspora (that is frequently compared to them). The ones that are more settled don’t necessarily vote that much( there are 500k Romanians in the UK but only 150k votes). There is a significant group of Romanians that work temporarily in other countries, or have moved between EU countries. Most work in quite bad conditions and are not outside Romania because they want to be, but because they have to be. In most cases they don’t plan on staying there and would like to come back. These group of people voted in the past for more liberal candidates but have become quite radicalized in the past 10 years. Most “working class” people in Romania at this point either have worked in the EU at some point or they have family, friends or acquittances that did or are still there so they are sharing this radicalization. Their picture of Western Europe (which is equated with the EU) is the one shared by the far right in those countries, i.e roaming gangs of Arabs and Africans stabbing, raping and living on benefits while the government wants to make your kids trans. To this there is the added idea that Romania is an exploited colony of the “West” that would be just used as shield in any anti-Russian war.

  33. I think most liberal people totally underestimate the influence of social media.

  35. This is very interesting yet incredibly tragic. I hope you guys will somehow prevent the hell of having an extremist lead the nation.

    This is by all accounts a betrayal of somebody’s own homeland.

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