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.
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!
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