George Simion of AUR party opposes military aid to Ukraine, has vilified EU leaders and will face a centrist in run-off vote
An ultranationalist who opposes military aid to Ukraine, has vilified the EU’s leaders, and calls himself Donald Trump’s “natural ally” has won the first round of Romania’s rerun presidential vote and will face a centrist in the run-off, early estimates predict.
Initial projections after polling stations closed on Sunday showed George Simion, whose far-right Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) began as an anti-vax movement during the pandemic, comfortably in the lead on between 30% and 33% of the vote.
A common trend behind all these cases is Russian propaganda and troll farms. They’re trying to subvert democracy everywhere in order to weaken states that might otherwise resist their imperiallist ambitions.
And the inevitable decline of neoliberal politics. People have been taught and indoctrinated by the media, that the right is economically proficcient but hindered by the left. And now they double down on neoliberal bullshit politics because not going hard enough didn’t help them and going more left is generally presented as an economically worse choice.
The sad truth is: Going more left would leave “the economy” (the stocks / rich peoples wallets) worse of but help the real economy by giving expendable income to people who right now, cannot spend what they don’t have.
And China. Since every time a fascist wins TikTok is the lynchpin of it all.