For the current presidential elections in Romania, this is the fourth time in a row that candidate George Simion has failed to show up for a televised confrontation, while Nicușor Dan has always been present.
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by PjeterPannos
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Because he is a coward.
Despite this, he is still on top of polls.
This is the worst world to live
EDIT: since I’m not Romanian, nor I read articles in Romanian, the only sources of information are in English or Italian. Til yesterday, Simion was said as “on top of polls”. I saw a poll where “he is no more on top” one minute after posting this. So, don’t come to my comment with your finger up and saying “achtually he is not”, because I know he is no more, despite a very thin difference; stop commenting this way. And polls are in many cases not indicative of what really people will vote.
“Has failed” kind of means that he tried to go but he could not. In reality, he just didn’t want to go because he was afraid of Nicusor Dan.
Last time Dan and Simion had a presidential debate, Simion lost 5% or so in the polls*(*=edited)
Now the question is: is he going to maintain his lead by not attending these debates or he’ll lose even more?
Seems like george not found
Simion is afraid because he knows he can be much more easily cornered. There are a lot of uncomfortable questions that he could be asked.
Not only that, but he doesn’t know how to answer questions about government, economy, etc. No matter what the question is, he always does some mental gymnastics and ends up talking about “those who stole from us all these years”.
He learns from his daddy Putin, that is also scared to meet Zelensky in Istanbul
A loser who claimed he would attend all the debates, but got knocked out in the first one. Now he’s running away like a coward because he has no plan – just pretends to know what he’s doing. He’s going to lose big time. We call him the empty chair 🪑.
HE S A BITCH
He’s a coward
Like a lot of extremists in the world, they scream at the top of their voices but got 0 solutions. People still vote them cuz they think screaming fixes the issue
Unfortunately it’ll probably only bolster his support.
Right-wing populists run on resentment towards the system and rejection of established norms.
Not attending debates is like giving the system and the opposition the finger which is exactly what his base want to see.
Oh and the favorite absentee, George Simion, just proposed to finally come again to a debate, but only if his counter candidate doesn’t come. I thought it was a joke at first. It seems his previous and only debate he attended got him extremely scared of Nicușor Dan. To be fair he was clearly outperformed by Dan.
For some reason Simion preferes to go to Poland to get involved in our presidential elections
Of course, his team is working with our Orban guy: he has not once been in a non-partial debate setting in the last 2 decades, and has won multiple 2/3 majorities thanks to adjusting the rules to his needs. Team Simion follows their applicable recommendations in Romania 🙂
Hopefully Nicusor wins the election but lets be real if Simion becomes President it’s not like he has a lot of power. In Romania the President is more a … mascot. He has the power to propose some people in the judicial branch and other bullshit but at the end of the day he needs the Parliament to have any sort of leverage in his plans and currently Simion (or Nicusor) don’t have anyone in the Parliament they can do big stuff with.
Romania is a Parliamentary State not one run by the President like the United States. So the damange an idiot like Simion would do is minimal. It would be bad for our image to have an idiot in charge, but it’s not like its the first time our politicians made Romania a laughing stalk to westerners or the US.
**I would LOVE to see debates for Parliamentary Elections, those are the ones that matte**r in Romania and most of the world. Not this bullshit mascot race. Romanians have an unhealthy love for voting for their President as if that will have any change in their lives, and yet they vote the same idiots more or less in the Parliament for 30+ years. Paradoxical don’t you think?
All of the Presidents attributes rely on good cooperation with the government and parliament, and guess who votes for those people? The dumb masses who have voted the same idiots in their comfy government and parliament chairs for 30+ years.
So yeah i am very indiferent as to who wins as it won’t have much effect on my day to day life. Romania already is becoming a shithole due to idiotic government and parliament, it can’t get much worse. But I would also like for Nicusor to win since he seems like a cool guy.
That is because he is abroad to try to sway foreing romanians to vote for him.
ND vs Ikea Chair :)))
The simple fact is some candidates have more to gain attending these debates and some have everything to lose. If you have everything to lose, it’s preferable to look bad by not attending rather than attending and risk losing wider support.
how is Dan’s social media campaign? I think it’s much more important than TV appearances
Simion is not taking his voters seriously.
Which one is pro Russia?
Meanwhile his fans will go ‘Yeah that’s cool’.
Don’t be scared homie.
And let me guess, they’re still voting for simion?
The soviet propaganda on facebook, tiktok works better than a tv show…
this is so typical :(. The dumb, aggressive, uneducated groups are ashamed to stand up and speak up, but they keep their resentiment and hatred silent and stubbornly elect the dumb, aggressive, uneducated candidates.
Social Media has people believing in bullshit and fairytale, all in their own bubble of “truth”.
Because he was made KO in the first debate and most likely someone from his staff advised him to stop showing up.
Let’s hope Romanians get their shit together on this one.
Each and every one of Putin’s disciples reveal themselves to be total clueless cowardly bitches at the end of the day. Just like their botox-doll daddy.
Before the first debate, I’m pretty sure Simion posted on facebook “I hope he doesn’t run away”
Just tell your idiot voters how bad the public media is and they will celebrate your cowardice.
is this the secret to anti fascism? force speeches and debates and make no shows grounds for disqualification.. top of my head this would have wiped almost all the parties across the world?
It’s the same strategy that Fernando Collor and Bolsonaro used in Brasil. They knew that on a debate they could perform bad, so they did not show up until it was one of the big ones.
Both won the elections anyway. That’s the sad part. I really hope in Romania that this strategy will not work and he will lose.
Oh we had that before and he won
Romanians shouldn’t be too shy to liquidate their corrupt leaders like how they treated Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu.
why the fuck do people even vote for him
Russia’s candidates don’t need to show up to Western decadent stuff like election debates. They don’t need to.
Marcos JR got away with this in the Philippines. Didn’t attend one single debate, won the election.
Hungarian here, Orbán has not been to any debate since maybe 2004? I don’t know exactly, but it’s been decades. And he is is still ruling with 2/3. The lack of debate does not do jack shit when your followers are mindless goons.
Let me guess. The one avoiding the debate is the extreme right candidate?
Reminds me of trump avoiding debates depending on who is on the other side.
So given the sad state of the world, he’ll probably win.
Serbia : you guys are having confrontations between candidates?
We have One guy which rules them all.
Police work, doctors work, construction work, judges work, prosecutors work, detective work. Anything you can think of. He is the One. /s
He REFUSES to show up, he’s a spineless coward and the idiots will still vote him for president
Let me guess.. George Simion is the conservative candidate? This same shit happened recently with literally all conservative candidates across the country with our recent elections in Canada.
Edit: newsflash, they lost.
SimiOFF
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