15h ago

Nicusor Dan beats hard-right favourite George Simion in Romanian election

news.sky.com

Pro-Western candidate Nicusor Dan has unexpectedly beaten hard-right populist George Simion in the Romanian election.

Mr Simion, 38, and his rival - a centrist who's mayor of Bucharest - faced off in the second round of the contest.

According to the official tally, Mr Dan was leading by nearly nine percentage points with more than 98% of the votes counted.

They aren't enough votes remaining for Mr Simion to make a comeback.

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18h ago

Exit polls from Romanian election suggest surprise win for pro-Western candidate Nicusor Dan | World News

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That's Romania saying no to MAGA style populism.
- About half the people who voted said yes to that
- It's been a good run lately, we've eked out wins in Germany, France, Canada, Australia, Croatia, and Romania
  
  Beware of moderate political parties trying to appease the far-right with their policies if they get into power. It's happened in the UK.
  
  It's been happening in the US for a long time too.
  
  The CDU should barely be considered a win in Germany. They pave the road that the AfD will walk down. Conservatives make everything worse and fascists thrive in poor conditions.
  
  keeping them out and the win in the courts is a start.
  
  That's sorta my point, it shouldn't be seen as a start. We can agree that the AfD would be an immediate loss, they would make things immediately worse and the country would very quickly decline for everyone but the elite who would be insulated from their own policies.
  I need people in Germany to see the CDU as a slow loss, because they make things worse at a slower time scale, and the country will continue to decline under their guidance for everyone but the elite who will benefit from their policies.
  The AfD losing is good. The CDU winning over the AfD winning is better. But both scenarios are still a loss, and they are the signals that the system is organically producing worse results and it'll continue to increase the magnitude of those poor results until we improve the system.
  
  Yeah as an American that's basically what I've been saying for the last 20 years. Now we are at the part where the worse results either become apparent or we lose our democracy.
  
  Here in Australia the supposed “MAGA style populism” lost because they were the complete opposite of that. They were offering basically nothing different to the current left wing government. They would have likely won had they actually been an opposition and campaigned on and promised what the Republicans did.
  
  Huh? What nonsense. The LNP started falling in the polls right when Trump got into office and started destroying America. They tried a few Trumpian policies and were forced to backflip because of how unpopular it made them.
  Dutton's attempt to replicate Trump was roundly rejected by Australians. And rightly so.
  
  No, Dutton did no such thing. He kept flip flopping between just copying labor’s policies and opposing them. His refusal to deal with our insanely high and unsustainable immigration showed that they are not at all “MAGA-like”. Did trump campaign on keeping immigration at near record levels?
  
  Jesus mate, you keep telling yourself that. Your extremist Sky After Dark rhetoric is going to keep the libs out of power for a decade.
  
  I'm fine with the LNP being out of power for a decade. They are trash. They're Labor-lite. I've literally never voted for them.

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