Elena Lasconi announces pro-Europe rally in Bucharest ahead of presidential runoff

11 comments

1. Hai Lenutaaaa 😊

2. Bromanians, do you need anything? Do we need to bring you anything warm?

3. I’m not in town till Saturday night, unfortunately, but I’ll be sure to vote first thing Sunday morning. Fuck CG

4. Every vote counts. Vote for Lasconi, vote for EU, vote for NATO.

5. I can’t grasp my head around how people went from being communist to capitalist and now wanting to return to Russia’s sphere of influence.In my eyes it’s the failure of democratic politicians to secure cheap energy,sustainable business and such,contrary to that in the Balkans we seem to love oligarchic governments who take everything and give back nothing.

6. I’m not trying to be mean but, like 1000 people will show up and they’ll all get called emos and gays. I’m hoping for something else but idk.

7. We, the skilled, educated, and trained, have become a minority in Romania.
   Don’t worry, dear Westerners. Millions of white- and blue-collar workers will head your way.

8. I don’t think this march will convince people. It’s good that we’re doing it, but it won’t have the desired impact.

   Lasconi set the battleground at “this is a fight for democracy, for staying in the EU”. This is wrong and it does not even represent a stake at all for CG’s voters or the average Romanian for that matter. They completely dismiss that CG would even pose a threat to the EU/NATO/democracy. They laugh in your face and they say “even if he turns out to be bad, we’ll just vote him out in 5 years, what’s the big deal?”.

   Their motto has been verbalized many times now ” let’s see what happens, okay?”. We know the old parties, let’s see Georgescu now, he’s never been in power.

   Therefore this march will accomplish nothing substantial, it will only warm up the pro EU camp, thinking we “did something”.

   I’m angry at the CG voters, but I think the battle was already lost somewhere in 2019. Ever since then, the 2 biggest parties have governed with extremely low popularity, the turnout was 32% in the 2020 elections. They were arrogant, incompetent, embarrassing in international affairs. And people have had enough, they’re at a point where they would revolt and riot and spark a popular revolution. But they don’t, they’re sending psycho Georgescu, with a chainsaw straight into the halls of power. To clean up for them, to punish those very politicians.

   The prequel was 2020. We forget AUR was voted in 2020 precisely out of vengeance against the old parties. And last week, it wasn’t just Georgescu’s win that was celebrated. People were celebrating the loss of the 2 biggest parties that failed to send a candidate into the final. They’re after vengeance and I don’t think the democracy talk will sway them in a way or another.

9. These are probably one of the most important elections, if not the most important one, in our recent history (at least after the fall of communism in December 1989). It is paramount that we turn out to vote massively and cast our vote for a pro-EU and pro-NATO candidate, of which there is only one, Elena Lasconi.

   One cannot comprehend at this point the ramifications and dangers that Romania might fall prey to, if Georgescu is to be elected president. Yes, we should also support a pro-EU and pro-NATO parliament (which seems to be forming already from the different political parties that don’t hold an ultra-nationalist agenda) but it is paramount that we fend off the danger which is electing Georgescu.

   I know that Reddit is not the usual “territory” of Georgescu sympathizers but I strongly believe that it is our duty to try and convince the yet-unconvinced or the ones who did not go to vote in the first round to do so and cast a vote that won’t result in a total regression of all the things Romania has managed to achieve until now.

   I’m part of the Romanian diaspora and I have always voted Lasconi, always voted USR (and yes, previously, I voted for Iohannis through and through). If I’m living and working outside of my home country that doesn’t mean that I don’t care about its future or, even worse, vote in such a way as to cause it harm. People who think like that would probably find their condition in a medical book of psychology or psychiatry illnesses.

   And I’m doing all I possibly can, talking to friends, relatives … to make sure that they are well informed about who is going against who in this runoff as every vote counts, as we have seen in the first round.

10. Will there be a march like the one in Georgia after they inevitably lose? (spoiler alert: there will be)

11. I hope He wins. Europe needs to be more based.

Comments are closed.