• atro_city@fedia.io
    9·
    6 days ago

    When voting closed at 9 p.m. local time (1800 GMT), official electoral data showed a 64% voter turnout […] In the first round on May 4, the final turnout stood at 53% of eligible voters.

    Wow, so many Romanian don’t give a fuck about where their country is going. 64% is better than 53% but still quite bad.

    • Kellamity
      6·
      6 days ago

      No - George Simion won the first round of the election with 22.9% of the vote.

      This was annulled as you say due to Russian election interference.

      Then it was ran back and he won the first round again.

      Then in the second round, the runoff, he lost. That’s what just happened.

      You can argue that you shouldn’t annul elections due to interference, if you want to you can even argue that this was a pro-Europe conspiracy

      But factually he at no point won the election, and when they reran the first round he was not only still a candidate, his vote share actually increased.

      But he still lost the second round.

      So if you ask me this coup theory doesn’t hold much water

    • BestBouclettes@jlai.lu
      3·
      6 days ago

      Nah that’s just upholding against the paradox of tolerance and foreign influence. Ban the intolerants, and act accordingly against foreign meddling.

      • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
        21·
        6 days ago

        I agree but they should have done that before the elections. Cancelling the elections when the Fascist guy is winning looks really stupid.