Last November, shortly before the aborted presidential elections in Romania, around a hundred influencers Local were hired by a dark platform called Fameup to disseminate, in their Tik Tok accounts, videos describing the qualities they would like to see in the new Head of State: “Stability”, “Progress” “Patriotism.” And although post -touched messages did not include the name of Calin Georgescuthe until then unknown Europhobic, ultra -right and appruso candidate who ended up giving the bell and winning the first round of the elections, those Tiktokeros unknown where the funds that paid their services came from, immediately found that a swarm of accounts, which they later demonstrated fakethey responded to their publications mentioning the controversial applicant in question. increasing their visibility in social networks and promoting their possibilities of victory.
Just over five months have elapsed from those events. In this period, Romania, a strategic border Balkan state with Ukraine, which houses in its territory, specifically close to the city of Constance, the military base Mihail cookthe installation of larger NATO, has plunged into a deep constitutional crisis: the second round of the elections was suspended by the Constitutional Court, given the need to guarantee “the correction and legality” of the electoral process, after local intelligence services revealed the existence of “aggressive Russian hybrid attacks”, referring to what happened in the Tik Tok network. For his part, Georgescu, among protests from his supporters, was arrested in February, accused of Six crimes And vetoed as a candidate in repetition of the elections, scheduled precisely for this weekend. About 18 million voters are summoned to the polls this Sunday in Romania, in a controversial electoral duplication in which the State Balkan Its credibility is played, both in front of their own citizens and abroad.
Ioana, a Romanian resident in Spain who prefers not to reveal her real name, could not believe that this conspiracy character, who once assured that the World Energy Center was “in the Carpats” and from which he made fun of his friends, could be the winner of the first round of the elections. “Is it the same type of those videos?” He asked them. The cancellation of the first round and the accusations presented by the Romanian justice against the winner of the elections not only have not calmed down the PROCELLOSO WATER of Romanian politics, but quite the opposite. They have aggravated the crisis. And it is that before the Georgescu phenomenon, “the authorities did not act properly,” criticizes Radu Magdin, president of Smartlink Communications and political commentator of Romania. According to its assessment, the ultra -rightist could have been prosecuted “much clearer” by illegal financing of his campaign, instead of attempt to reverse the constitutional order as it has finally been.
Restore reputation
For this analyst, the priority of the new head of the State, whoever, will consist of restoring “the reputation” of the electoral processes to prevent the name of the Balkan country from being used by characters such as the US vice president JD Vance to attack the credibility of democracy in Europe. “If your democracy can be destroyed For a few simple 100,000 dollars in digital advertising of a foreign country, so, to begin with, it was not very strong, “the American politician laughed in a critical speech delivered during the annual security conference in Munich last February.
All observers assumed that the name of the new head of the State will be settled on May 18, when the second round of the elections is celebrated, since no applicant will achieve the qualified majority necessary to be chosen in the first instance this Sunday. Almost inevitably in this electoral liza, the ultra -nationalist George Simión will be found, to whom the polls grant 30% of the votes, even receiving the support of the forbidden and defendant Georgescu, materialized visually. “They have appeared together in a photograph during Easter,” Magdin recalls. The second position that would give access to the presidential final round will be disputed, according to the surveys, Nicusor Dan, mayor of Bucharest and candidate of the reformist sectors of the company, and Crin Antonescu, Backed by the government coalition formed by socialists, liberals and Hungarians. “There are no candidates that I like,” Ioana criticizes, who also emphasizes that the rise of Romania’s outraged is promoted above all by the diaspora abroad: “They are people who feel excluded from the country.”
The European partners of Romania They have their eyes placed in the personality and ideas of simion, in case the electoral forecasts are fulfilled and becomes the new Romanian president. Despite his rupturist and anti -system ideology, the leader of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (Aur), in Magdin’s words, has experienced in recent years a process of “melonization”, referring to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who despite her ultra -conservative ideology has established a constructive working relationship with Brussels. In case of simion becomes president, the analyst predicts, “must establish a civilized relationship with Ursula von der Leyenlike Meloni, because the Romanians need money of Brussels and understanding towards our deficit. “
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