An obscure political party from Romania (PSDU) has seemingly stolen votes from PSD (largest political party in Romania), likely due to their similar names and logos

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by kwizy717

28 comments

  1. Our country is a fucking joke, this is straight out of a comedy movie

  3. Democracy basically means: Government by the people, of the people, for the people…

  5. How is it allowed to have such similar name, logo with exactly same letters without the U etc?

    Seriously it sounds like a bad joke.

  7. PSD is the largest party in the country and currently in government. How incompetent can they be to let this happen?

    I’ve never supported them but mimicking their name and logo has to be illegal, right?

  8. “Listen, the only people we hate more than the Romans are the fucking Judean People’s Front.”

    “And the Judean Popular People’s Front.”

    “And the People’s Front of Judea!”

  10. We had something similar in Portugal in the election earlier this year, with some of the votes that were supposed to be for AD (main centre right coalition) going instead to ADN, an antivax/conspiracy theorist party.

  11. Can’t wait for 2028 when we’ll have

    ƤSD, ꝐSD, PṨD, PŠD, Real PSD, xX_PSD_Xx, *PSD, PSD Official

  13. You just got to the same position as Hungary… People are brainwashed with national fascist propaganda (coming from Russia), except Hungary already has a puppet government.
    You are about to instate one.

    Please, wake up!

  14. But wait, Romanian elections are still not over! We have one more round to go and most likely it will be tragic!

  16. In the UK a similar issue came up 30 years ago when the “Li**t**eral Democrats” stood as spoilers to the “Li**b**eral Democrats.” [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-27056001y](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-27056001y)

    This lead to a change of law here – now political parties have to register their names and logos with the Electoral Commission who will refuse them if they are potentially confusing.

  17. We had these conspiracies before.
    As a source of jokes.
    Now they are major political movements in most countries. 

  19. And because of this they got 165k+ votes, these elections are making me wanna leave Romania😭

  21. Funnily we had a Party with the abbreviation “KEINE” which translates to “none” to catch protest voters who didn’t like any of the options. It did absolutely NOT work tho lol.

  22. There is another one named PSDI (the I stands for independent) although the logo is not that similar

  23. In Lithuania we have a Green party that during all debates was repeating that they are actually green party and not to be confused with the party called Peasants and Greens

  28. In this year’s Portuguese election the centre-right party PSD decided to rebrand and enter a coalition with the (borderline dead) right-wing CDS and PPM parties. This was in order to present itself with the title Democratic Alliance (AD), a somewhat well remembered coalition that ruled from 1980-1983.

    Now, what was the problem? There was already a party called ADN, an anti-vax conspiracy theory party with a similar name. After AD’s leaders realized this could lead to mistakes, they spent the whole campaign asking the electorate not to confuse the two. This was because in the ballot boxes ADN would be called “ADN” and AD would be called “PSD-CDS-PPM”, making distracted voters able to vote erroneously for the first one.

    What was the result? AD was expected to convicingly defeat PS (centre-left) but they only won by less than 1% and only 2 more MPs; and ADN, a party with 10K votes in 2019 and 2022, jumped to +100K votes and was able fo have public funding (which they later spent on Kill Bill parody videos).

    These 90K votes could have granted AD a convincigly stronger majority, but they lost it because of a naming fixation.

    Portugal is Western Europe’s Romania

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