Summary

Romania’s Constitutional Court has ordered a recount of the November 24 presidential election after far-right candidate Calin Georgescu unexpectedly won the first round, despite polling below 5% beforehand.

Georgescu, critical of NATO and supportive of Russia’s Putin, will face centrist Elena Lasconi in a December 8 runoff.

The court rejected an application to annul the election, citing a missed deadline.

The decision comes amid reports of cyberattacks and allegations of TikTok of favoring the far-right candidate.

  • @[email protected]
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    641 day ago

    I don’t know what would be more disturbing, finding out that the election was rigged without anyone noticing or that so many people actually voted for this guy.

      • @halcyoncmdr
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        416 hours ago

        Reminder that only ~30% of the country voted for Trump.

        • @Jumi
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          But most of the 30-40% who didn’t vote seem to be okay with Trump too. Added together that’s more than half of the US.

          • @halcyoncmdr
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            510 hours ago

            Honestly, not really. Most of them don’t pay any attention, they’re too busy living paycheck to paycheck and trying not to be homeless and don’t have the time to stay politically educated.

            And yes, that is pretty paradoxically why so much of the country is in that position in the first place.

        • @PriorityMotif
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          16 hours ago

          30% of eligible voters.

          75M / 356M = 21% of people living in the United States.

      • @ThePyroPython
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        1 day ago

        You already have enough “help”; in fact you have on average three per person in the US.

        • Tiefling IRL
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          23 hours ago

          The average is heavily skewed by fascists with armories

          (Not to say leftists aren’t armed)

          • @ThePyroPython
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            222 hours ago

            Sounds like it could do with a bit of affirmative action to adjust the representation of the armed community.

        • @qarbone
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          724 hours ago

          Presuming you’re talking about servants, do you really think the average American can afford 3 maids? Sincerely?