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.
That’s Romania saying no to MAGA style populism.
About half the people who voted said yes to that
Centrists won’t address the actual issues that cause fascism to fester. Instead centrists will pivot right to out right the fascists.
Indeed, looking at your Portugal, Australia, UK, NZ, Canada etal
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.
And Australia
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.