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Because this is what happens when the country is ran by corrupt and/or incompetent politicians. I've seen what people are posting and commenting here, blaming e
by mns 2y ago
Because this is what happens when the country is ran by corrupt and/or incompetent politicians. I've seen what people are posting and commenting here, blaming everything on Russia, but this is exactly the same message that the far right uses when they blame everything on the EU.
The thing is that when the 2 biggest parties in the country come to govern together, they have no opposition, they weakened out justice system, weakened the secret services to gain power and be able to do whatever they want, they allowed and ignored the rise of far-right parties thinking they would use them to scare people into still voting for them and now we're here.
There was so much evidence that both this guy and the other 2 extreme parties are doing a lot of crap and getting all kind of external support, but they just ignored them and hoped to use them, thinking they will never get above a certain level. You had vloggers and online people showing signs of all the fake accounts and crap that was being promoted and the authorities just pretended not to see anything. Then they banned one of the 3 heads of the far right side, and this just made things worse, because instead of letting the far right eat themselves up (because they are so insane, that they can't help but fight each other and fragment their share of the votes), they allowed this absolutely insane (in the worst way possible) charismatic guy gather even more votes.
Now all of the sudden, after ignoring and pretending not to see anything, thinking that these far right candidates will help them, the establishment realized they messed up and now decide to take extreme measures and basically say that 9 milion votes don't matter. This won't end well...
- throw_pm23 2y agoA similar thing happened in Austria in 2016 where election results were cancelled due to campaign finances violations.
- mns 2y agoYeah, but here it's so obvious. The BEC (Central Electoral Bureau) should have checked constantly the campaign spending. They didn't do that, probably also not to upset the ruling parties that were doing their own financial "optimizations" for campaign spending, and completely ignored the fact that this guy that was doing influencer campaigns and was promoted all over TikTok was declaring nothing, so 0 spending. When you ask the institutions that are supposed to guard our country and democracy to close their eye so you can do whatever you want, you shouldn't act surprised when someone even more evil will take advantage of that.