Nicușor Dan is the new president of Romania. Congratulations to everyone who voted!
Congratulations! This is a good day for Romania and for Europe!
Good news. I hear his right-wing opponent already accepted a new position in Chad.
Wikipedia said that too, so it must be legit.
Where do y’all make these hyperrealistic AI images?
I didnt, just downloaded it. But with stable diffusion with lots of experimenting
It’s AI slop but I’ll allow it. (^^)
First of all, congratulations to the Romanian people! I hope you will thrive.
I have a question, though. There often is a huge difference how a leader is perceived nationally vs. internationally. Afaik, Macron is relatively highly regarded in Europe but many French people have their issues with him. So, what do the Romanian people think of him? I’d be glad to hear from some!
Afaik, Macron is relatively highly regarded in Europe
Is he ? I might be biased by french media, but I don’t feel like he is highly regarded by foreign politicians. Liberal media like him because he is one of the last few good looking and good sounding proponents of their ideas.
@Bienenvolk there’s quite a strong propaganda, coming from the traditional parties (PSD - Social Democrats and PNL - National Liberals) claiming, but later taken by the extremist parties, demonizing him because he said he doesn’t say I love you to his children (or something like that), because he’s not married to his partner despite having children and living with her for so long, the fact that he’s still living in a rented house at his age etc.
Most notably, he is a friend of a man called Matei Păun, who had business with Russia and Belarus and held some questionable views a while ago, but he emphasized repeatedly that he doesn’t share his views. And George Simion is a persona non-grata in both Ukraine and Moldova, and pushed a lot of anti-Ukraine and anti-Moldovan narratives, so this fact was irrelevant as well.
He pretty much has the appearance of a modest man, just a regular guy doing every day stuff, driving a 20-year-old Renault Clio and living with his family, taking care of his children, something along the lines.
I’m personally following him since a while, and what I noticed was that in the previous campaign for the city hall of Bucharest, even when his opponents attacked him, they did it in a somewhat respectful way (don’t know how to explain it). So he does seem like a man who gets respect and decency without explicitly asking for it.
Imo I think we’ll have some interesting 5 years ahead.
Wow, that sounds good! I appreciate your long answer.
@Bienenvolk I’m confident rn. We’ll hear again after the next 5 years, I guess :D
Still crazy that 45% really think that the far right alternative was a good choice…
Voter turnout was a record high of 62%
Why don’t romanians vote?
Voting for the lesser evil: this is how to do it, USA.
If it’s truly just a lesser evil, as opposed to “good”, then voters will be disillusioned and the next election will result in fascism. Liberals failing to do good is the sole reason fascism is escalating worldwide.
“Better get fascism now, rather than next election” is such a dumb take
It’s not what I meant. I’m not criticizing people for voting liberal on that one – I’m criticizing, on one hand, the lax attitude people have towards fascism before elections happen, and the unwillingness of both the prosecutors and leaders to do anything about fascism.
The attitude of the latter is why the former is so lax about fascism (imo), and they should be pressured to take actual action against fascism, as well as actually addressing popular issues. Because simple posturing is how thing don’t get better for the average voter, and why that average voter might end up thinking fascism might be the actual solution
I mean, it is a two-round system.
First time is voting for your favorite.
Second round is voting against the worse of the two.
The US needs this, like get rid of party primaries and have a blanket non-partisan parimary where you vote for whoever. Bernie, AOC, etc.
Or better yet: ranked-choice.
A centrist is just another goddamn neo-liberal… I think, though he did run as an independent?! Daring today, aren’t we sir?
But yeah, better him than… the “alternative”. It’s not nice to have someone who cleans Tzar boots with his tounge as president.
Centrist, left, right, that’s up to people to choose. Selling the country shouldn’t be IMO.
