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by cbg0 2y ago
Your facetious comment doesn't really add anything to the conversation, this isn't Reddit.
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by cbg0 2y ago
That's not how the law works in Romania. As a political candidate, your paid ads have to marked accordingly with a number that can be traced back and all donations and spending must be reported to a government authority. One of the iss
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by cbg0 2y ago
This isn't character assassination, we're talking about his own words. He even plagiarized a speech by Ion Antonescu ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Antonescu ): https://www.euronews.ro/arti
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by cbg0 2y ago
This is not a "stance", I'm mostly talking about the law, and that's something that judges decide on, not myself. Foreign nations are not allowed to be involved in the electoral process in Romania by law and could lead t
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I don't have a clear answer on that for you, but nobody was disqualified in this situation as the election was annulled and will restart from scratch. This hypothetical situation though is a bit unlikely, as we're talking about qu
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by cbg0 2y ago
That's not what's being disputed and I completely agree with your sentiment. The issue is that electoral campaign law was not respected and thus the elections were not considered "free and fair", but tainted by this shad
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by cbg0 2y ago
Every politician in Romania has a "pro Moldova" attitude and even a pro-union attitude (there's no legal mechanism to make this happen, so it's very shallow). In Moldova, where lots of people have Romanian citizenship as
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The EU don't have to disclose something like that, as Romania has a central authority that handles this stuff, as per the law: > The collection of electoral contributions and the payment of electoral expenses may be made only throug
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by cbg0 2y ago
Who are these "globalists" and what does that word really mean for you? Because the wikipedia article is a doozy.
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by cbg0 2y ago
There is no doubt in my mind that while the decision today is backed by the law it still erodes democratic principles in my country.
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> Then why aren't we talking about the influence of NATO&co as well? Because that can be found everywhere, starting from google search results. Search "elena lasconi campaign donors" on google, you'll get exclusiv
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by cbg0 2y ago
His messaging regarding Ukraine was not something that positively affected his campaign, on the contrary it ignited political opponents over his anti-NATO views. His campaign landed better because of his palatable way of speaking and saying
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by cbg0 2y ago
No, you would still be on the hook for breaking electoral law by not reporting spending, even as a private individual not part of the election. This wouldn't be relevant for making a few flyers as the law won't come after you for
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Not as much pro-Russian as they are anti-establishment and also surprisingly anti-EU, even though they live in EU outside of Romania. Many of them are working minimum paid jobs in tough working conditions, plus they have trouble integrating
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by cbg0 2y ago
You would be in legal trouble for breaking electoral law. Based on what happened today, if there is proof that the electoral process was tainted, the elections can be annulled by the constitutional court.
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It's possible but spending has to be reported to the electoral authority, which it wasn't.
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PNL & PSD are establishment parties in Romania. We are a young democracy, since the end of 1989 when we ended communism with people rising up to fight in the streets for a better tomorrow, so the aforementioned parties do have roots in
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by cbg0 2y ago
Not really, and all the money needs to be declared anyway. I'll give you an excerpt of relevant law text, some stuff removed as there's a lot of fluff: Election campaign expenses shall comply with the following conditions: a) come
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by cbg0 2y ago
He wasn't exactly super popular before the race, polling below 5% so nobody was really concerned about him, plus the court needs to be called upon to act, as they can't intervene without a complaint being lodged.
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by cbg0 2y ago
There's a lot of people summarizing this whole situation as "the candidate who should have won didn't so they cancelled the election". I'm Romanian and I'll provide some more details on this: The country has be
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by cbg0 2y ago
This is a very weird take. The candidate in question broke electoral law and gained an unfair advantage in the election process. The constitutional court is obligated to step in and cancel the election, as per the constitution. The decision
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by cbg0 2y ago
It's unclear if he will be allowed to participate again, due to his sympathy for the Iron Guard ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Guard ) which is outlawed, and some pending criminal cases for money laundering, a
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by cbg0 2y ago
Doesn't look like it at the moment.
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There were DDoS attacks targeting some state systems connected to the electoral process, that is factually correct, but it's not why the election was cancelled, that's because a candidate broke electoral law.
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> How does a French/German person benefit from the money from their taxes being sent to another country when their own economies are in the dumpster? Both France and Germany are above EU average GDP PPP, how is this equivalent to a
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by cbg0 2y ago
> If you want to do business in every EU country you basically have to register a business in each of them. This is false. Some types of business that are more heavily regulated do require you to set up a local branch.
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> Let's face it: our culture (all across the EU), is American, anyway. No, it isn't. At most you could say that a part of our culture is American, but even amongst each other, EU countries differ quite a bit in terms of culture
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by cbg0 2y ago
No need for whataboutism, mainstream media lies are bad as well.
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The account was made minutes before posting the comment. I come from Romania, an ex-communist country and it's insane to compare the EU with the USSR.
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We don't have true left wing candidates in Romania, or not any that have made it far in the election cycle, so this is not relevant.

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