On Europe day, Romanians showed their support in the street for EU, for democracy and against fascism

This is very late and I am letting it stand, but please note [rule] 10 we have here on the Lemmy community:

Always provide context with posts: Don't post uncontextualized images or videos, and don't start discussions without giving some context first.

@EuroMod I'm sorry I did not provide adequate context. There was a march in support of the EU membership, given the current situation where the most voted candidate was a pro-Russian who more or less wants to sabotage it and sabotage the EU itself. This one was in Bucharest, but others were held in lots of other big cities across the country.
There were technically two such rallies this weekend, but one of them was in support of the pro-European candidate (organized by him as well)
- Thanks! For the record, I don't doubt it and it was on German news as well. The rule exists to protect us against people posting old/miscontextualized pictures -- again, to be clear: I don't think you were doing that at all.
  /f

Yet in the voting booth a majority will likely decide to put one of Moscow's sockpuppets in a position of power.

Didn't they just recently vote anti european?

@Kennystillalive we sadly did. Many people voted for that guy and we, the others that are deeply attached to the EU and it's values are quite afraid of the possible outcome. Fortunately there is hope.

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When was this?

@wittyusername yesterday. There was a huge gathering in Bucharest and we marched from the University Square (the place of the bloodiest clashes in the 1989 revolution) all the way to the Victoria Square, where the largest protests hapened almost 10 years ago, when corrupt politicians like Dragnea were seizing the state institutions.
There were also gatherings in Iași, Timișoara, Cluj and other cities.

Democracy is when you ban your political opponents?

@kek no, democracy is not when you ban your opponents. Democracy is when you sanction contenders if they don't respect the rules of the game. When they declare 0 spending in online campaigns, when they don't properly label their political propaganda material as such (even when the law requests it), when they do not disclose their spending but they spend huge amounts of cash coming from far-right affiliates and other sketchy sources, when they threaten with riots or outright coups involving mercenaries that fought in Congo alongside Wagner, this is when the rules of the game are not respected.
I would be more concerned for democracy if we would have only two political forces and barring one from running would make the other one the only choice, than barring a sketchy guy from entering the race.
Just fyi, we had 11 candidates this election and we had 3 debates last week, where all of them were invited.
- Fair points. Not too familiar with the situation in Romania but it seems the people voted against "the establishment", as we've seen in other European countries over the last number of years. Can't be external interference in all of these cases although I'm not discounting that it might be in some.
  My view is that in a healthy democracy any external influence wouldn't achieve such results but maybe I'm too optimistic.