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[–] rocket_dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 weeks ago

He's definitely not part of any fascist organizations, the oligarch throwing Nazi salutes can vouch for him.

[–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

gunther point An EU country doing something about the far right?! Who would have thought?

[–] kurikai@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Good they should ban the far right

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Amazing to watch libs slowly discover why there need to be limits on democracy. Maybe one day they'll even understand why socialist states have a single socialist party in charge.

[–] wellfill@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Parliamentarism is a joke of a democracy. It does not represent the people or their needs.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

Precisely right, it represents the ruling class which are the capital owning oligarchs.

[–] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Democracy is when people elect someone and a court (totally not controlled by the imperialism) decides they voted wrong and ban the candidate from running again

[–] Guttural@jlai.lu -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's not what happened though. If you want to be protected by electoral rules, you have to abide by them. You can't have your cake and eat it too.

[–] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

What happened then?

[–] jimbel@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Will be interesting how this develops. After all he was voted for by a lot of people. Nevertheless a democracy has to defend itself. And i think it is clear that a lot of misinformation etc. Was spread. So lets see what this leads to...

[–] randon31415@lemmy.world -5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I feel like there is more going on than a coordinated TikTok campaign, but they don't want to say anything less they tip off the Russian actors that they know what they are doing.

Still, imagine if SCOTUS banned the Democratic nominee from running for president because some foreigners were posting TikTok about then.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The tiktok campaign was funded by the ruling political party to divide the vote of opposition parties since Calin was seen as a fringe guy with no chance to win. There was no russian intervention.

https://www.politico.eu/article/investigation-ties-romanian-liberals-tiktok-campaign-pro-russia-candidate-calin-georgescu/

[–] BlueFootedBooby@lemm.ee -1 points 2 weeks ago

Ikr? Even convicted felons can run for president in the US, Russian plants are also welcome.