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Sure, but that's not why he was elected president. Well, not directly. His Olympiad results led to him getting a doctorate at Sorbonne, which led to him speaki
by ddalex 1y ago
Sure, but that's not why he was elected president. Well, not directly.
His Olympiad results led to him getting a doctorate at Sorbonne, which led to him speaking french, which led to impressing Macron who threw France's weight into supporting Dan.
It was a power move to replace the German influence with French influence (previous praesident was ethnic German)
- ahartmetz 1y agoGermany and France are fairly aligned these days, no big deal :>
- generic92034 1y agoTell that to the people involved in or suffering from the power struggles regarding FCAS ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Combat_Air_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Combat_Air_System ).
- mittensc 1y agoThat's a really naive and wrong take. He is popular, he was elected mayor of Bucharest. He led a lot of anti corruption efforts for a very long time. (founded USB/USR) He is smart (as you noted by olympiad, speaking multiple foreign languages) He is religious as well (pretty important aparently) All his opponents were much less competent. A PSD candidate will never be president in a two term election unless the counter candidate is worse (because of iliescu and corruptiob) The AUR candidate really is a russian puppet and not that smart either, he's mostly there for the 30% vote extremists always get and which were taken by georgescu first time. It's a shame he got far and shows how much influence external actors can have over facebook/tiktok etc. The USR candidate that managed to squeeze through first time has no charisma and was a backup since Nicusor refused the first time... So what else is left?
- stefantalpalaru 1y ago[dead]