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On Europe day, Romanians showed their support in the street for EU, for democracy and against fascism (mstdn.ro)
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On Europe day, Romanians showed their support in the street for EU, for democracy and against fascism

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

@kek the only external influence that has been going on was the Russian one, and it's been happening in basically all the European countries - if not in many of them: Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, probably the Baltics too, etc.

Yes, we voted against the establishment, and we now have two candidates that positioned themselves as such. However, one of these candidates has a strong nationalistic rhetoric, wants us to stop helping Ukraine, the country that literally acts as a shield against Russia to us, to not help Moldova and its people despite being a strong unionist in the past (it's how he gained the popularity of today) and despite moldovans and us being pretty much the same people (today's Moldova is the result of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact which pretty much drew the border of nowaday's Eastern Europe). He literally wants to leave two of our neighbors at the whim of Russia, and isolate us from the rest of the world, bringing that Georgescu guy as a president or as a prime minister (depending on what fits best) - a guy that said he literally wants to do away with all the political parties altogether (not just with the existing ones, but in general) - imo this is clearly extremely undemocratic.

The other guy that's running for president literally fought in court with the authorities for giving illegal building permits, created the first actually new party since around the '90s upon its creation (most of the others were just creations of older politicians becoming unhappy with their mothership and creating another party and another party, but not bringing any new face in the game) and won the city hall of Bucharest twice, despite facing an ugly disinformation campaign from the established parties. Once in office, he managed to get the finances of the city straight (the previous mayor literally bankrupted the city, but he hid this fact from the public out of fear that the creditors would start asking for money straight away, stranding the local budget even more), he contracted EU funds for repairing the city's heating pipes (we have pretty much the biggest central heating system in the country), bought new trams, new buses, new trolleybuses, stopped the lawsuits against the journalists (that, again, the previous mayor started because they were too uncomfortable), gradually closed most of the public companies the previous mayor started as a way to siphon public funds etc. Yes, he's not perfect, he hasn't really done any wonders while in office so far, there's still a lot to do for this city, but the intention of him is very clear and because of this he's a better fit for many as a candidate, even to the post-1989 establishment.

There's much more to say about both, but this is largely the political landscape we're faced with the next Sunday. Hope this also clears things up for you too to a certain degree. :)