Stand strong Romania! I strongly believe you can avoid following American footsteps!
Please don’t let orban to gain an other similarly narrow minded dictator to help each other.
In varietate concordia!
much love
Hello! See you in two weeks.
Hello from Italy, we love romania
Romania the armpit of Europe
All the best from Warsaw. Stay strong, choose wisely.
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Hello from Texas!
This election is so important for EU in my opinion. And for Ukraine war. Hope Roumanian will vote wisely and not fall in the extreme ideas that are spreading the world this days. 🇪🇺
While you still can – prevent the election of that russian puppet. Otherwise you may find the whole Romania becoming russian puppet. The risk of war in this case will be huge.
Wish you all the best from Hungary! 🇪🇺
All the best from switzerland. We had an idiot who made us stay out of the eu. Dont do our mistakes 🙁
Best wishes from Lithuania 🇱🇹
Stay strong, I hope you vote in the candidate who will make your country stronger, and by extension our whole European family 🇪🇺
Hi! I just happened to pass by this protest (Victory Square, Bucharest) while on vacation visiting the in laws.
For context: the first round of the Romanian elections, where the 2 candidates for the final round are decided, just happened.
The big winner (Simion) got about 40% of the votes so he is pretty much expected to win round two. Simion is (party)buddies with Georgescu and stated he may just make him president if he wins.
Georgescu is controversial for suspisious patterns in his campaign which resulted in a large first round win and then the whole first round being annuled.
Also Georgescu is very anti EU, pro-Russia and supposedly a supporter of WW2 era Romanian nazi collaborators.
Simion is expected to be pretty much a Georgescu 2.0, and people are afraid this will mean another populist/far right leader gets handed the scepter in an EU country, worsening EU ties.
So now for a little more back story, since the fall of communism over 30 years ago, Romania has gone from being fairly impoverished to rapidly developing and having some pretty solid organizational and economical systems in place. Wages have gone up rapidly but also many Romanians expat in construction and agriculture in western Europe, boosting the Romanian economy. Sounds like a good thing right? Well not exactly. Romanian wages struggle keeping up with the inflation brought about by some 20% of its population enjoying west-European wages. People are being priced out of recreational activities and restaurants, but more pressingly basic necesities like food. While the EU brought Romania much progress its not all good and many people feel this in their budgets. To me it feels like Simion, being a populist and nationalist, feels like an answer to many people their problems, through revitalizing the local Romanian economy compared to the international one.
Runner up Nicoşor got some 20% of the votes and is not expected to prove a real challenge for Simion to overcome. However he is unafiliated but more pro EU leaning, if I understand correctly. From who I’ve spoken to, and I try to be as neutral as I can, generally the less educated population sees Simion as a possible savior, while the more educated population sees Nicoşor as the only option to prevent serious economic downturn and possibly much worsened EU ties.
That being said, I guess there is an argument to be made for both. As a strong Europhile I dislike Simion, I don’t know much about Nicoşor but if I were Romanian, he’d have my vote.
TL;DR
Simion, an anti EU and pro Russia candidate is expected to win the second (final) round of the elections and people are taking to the street because the perspective is pretty grim.
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Hello!
Stand strong Romania! I strongly believe you can avoid following American footsteps!
Please don’t let orban to gain an other similarly narrow minded dictator to help each other.
In varietate concordia!
much love
Hello! See you in two weeks.
Hello from Italy, we love romania
Romania the armpit of Europe
All the best from Warsaw. Stay strong, choose wisely.
Translate this into votes in the second round
Hello from Texas!
This election is so important for EU in my opinion. And for Ukraine war. Hope Roumanian will vote wisely and not fall in the extreme ideas that are spreading the world this days. 🇪🇺
While you still can – prevent the election of that russian puppet. Otherwise you may find the whole Romania becoming russian puppet. The risk of war in this case will be huge.
Wish you all the best from Hungary! 🇪🇺
All the best from switzerland. We had an idiot who made us stay out of the eu. Dont do our mistakes 🙁
Best wishes from Lithuania 🇱🇹
Stay strong, I hope you vote in the candidate who will make your country stronger, and by extension our whole European family 🇪🇺
Hi! I just happened to pass by this protest (Victory Square, Bucharest) while on vacation visiting the in laws.
For context: the first round of the Romanian elections, where the 2 candidates for the final round are decided, just happened.
The big winner (Simion) got about 40% of the votes so he is pretty much expected to win round two. Simion is (party)buddies with Georgescu and stated he may just make him president if he wins.
Georgescu is controversial for suspisious patterns in his campaign which resulted in a large first round win and then the whole first round being annuled.
Also Georgescu is very anti EU, pro-Russia and supposedly a supporter of WW2 era Romanian nazi collaborators.
Simion is expected to be pretty much a Georgescu 2.0, and people are afraid this will mean another populist/far right leader gets handed the scepter in an EU country, worsening EU ties.
So now for a little more back story, since the fall of communism over 30 years ago, Romania has gone from being fairly impoverished to rapidly developing and having some pretty solid organizational and economical systems in place. Wages have gone up rapidly but also many Romanians expat in construction and agriculture in western Europe, boosting the Romanian economy. Sounds like a good thing right? Well not exactly. Romanian wages struggle keeping up with the inflation brought about by some 20% of its population enjoying west-European wages. People are being priced out of recreational activities and restaurants, but more pressingly basic necesities like food. While the EU brought Romania much progress its not all good and many people feel this in their budgets. To me it feels like Simion, being a populist and nationalist, feels like an answer to many people their problems, through revitalizing the local Romanian economy compared to the international one.
Runner up Nicoşor got some 20% of the votes and is not expected to prove a real challenge for Simion to overcome. However he is unafiliated but more pro EU leaning, if I understand correctly. From who I’ve spoken to, and I try to be as neutral as I can, generally the less educated population sees Simion as a possible savior, while the more educated population sees Nicoşor as the only option to prevent serious economic downturn and possibly much worsened EU ties.
That being said, I guess there is an argument to be made for both. As a strong Europhile I dislike Simion, I don’t know much about Nicoşor but if I were Romanian, he’d have my vote.
TL;DR
Simion, an anti EU and pro Russia candidate is expected to win the second (final) round of the elections and people are taking to the street because the perspective is pretty grim.
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