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Summary
Romania’s electoral commission barred far-right candidate Calin Georgescu from the presidential election without explanation.
Georgescu, who led polls with 40%, called the move “a direct blow to democracy” and plans to appeal. His supporters protested in Bucharest.
The constitutional court annulled his prior election win over alleged Russian interference, which he denies. He faces legal issues, including accusations of financing violations and extremist ties.
A vocal Trump supporter, Georgescu received backing from Trump officials, including Elon Musk and JD Vance, who condemned Romania’s actions.
Democracy is dying all over the world.
Edit: To the downvoters, do you think it is not? All of the democracy watchdogs say that it is. I’m in the US and it certainly is dying here.
People are downvoting because it seems you think democracy is dying because a far-right candidate was barred from elections. If this happened regularly all over the world, there would be no world-wide decline.
The downvoters are happy when democracy dies if the democratic vote would support a candidate they don’t like.
It’s a major reason why I’m proudly independent at this point. Too many people are too proud to be hypocritical children and throw tantrums whenever they don’t get what they want.
It’s time to grow up from that shit.
People are down voting you for your attitude. Stop whining and start doing something 🙄
They’re downvoting him because they want the will of the people to be invalidated when it goes against their agenda.
Holy crap the shit you people throw to see what sticks only makes me happier I’m never loyal to your side.