I think the purpose of the re-enrolment is to get Georgescu out of the game, same as they did with Șoșoacă in July. They will probably reject him based on the money thing from the first round.
When it comes to the actual votes, that is going to be a shitshow. A lot of people who voted for him had no idea what they vote for, they only chose him because he didn’t have any of the major parties to back him up. Funny enough, sever years ago AUR proposed him as prim minister, but that’s how Romanie works, we read about the candidates only after the elections.
Anyway, since he got in the second round, Georgescu got a lot of free publicity so now people are openly supporting him.
What migtt happen is that his votes will go towards Simion, and then we will be in the same situation as we are now, just with a football hooligan fascist, instead of a post-comunist fascist.
Right. I actually assumed he was running for AUR and only realized he was running as an independent after this whole mess. Knocking him out on the enrolment requirement makes sense, but I still don’t understand how the legal and constitutional framework of the whole thing is supposed to work.
It sure sounds like this is how you make a renegade Trump. But then, he was already leading in the first round, so I suppose that ship has sailed. I’m afraid this may just be the beginning of this nonsense.
This election is very interesting, viewing it from Hungary, and not just because AUR is what it is regarding Hungarian minorities.
Orbán has openly stated that the “forces on the side of peace” - read “the Russians” - will be making it a test run for a gambit that might save his own ass in our next election in 2026. He’s actually in the minority for the first time in forever.
Fingers crossed you guys get to avoid becoming another Russian puppet.
I think the purpose of the re-enrolment is to get Georgescu out of the game, same as they did with Șoșoacă in July. They will probably reject him based on the money thing from the first round.
When it comes to the actual votes, that is going to be a shitshow. A lot of people who voted for him had no idea what they vote for, they only chose him because he didn’t have any of the major parties to back him up. Funny enough, sever years ago AUR proposed him as prim minister, but that’s how Romanie works, we read about the candidates only after the elections.
Anyway, since he got in the second round, Georgescu got a lot of free publicity so now people are openly supporting him.
What migtt happen is that his votes will go towards Simion, and then we will be in the same situation as we are now, just with a football hooligan fascist, instead of a post-comunist fascist.
Right. I actually assumed he was running for AUR and only realized he was running as an independent after this whole mess. Knocking him out on the enrolment requirement makes sense, but I still don’t understand how the legal and constitutional framework of the whole thing is supposed to work.
It sure sounds like this is how you make a renegade Trump. But then, he was already leading in the first round, so I suppose that ship has sailed. I’m afraid this may just be the beginning of this nonsense.
Thanks a lot for the explainer!
This election is very interesting, viewing it from Hungary, and not just because AUR is what it is regarding Hungarian minorities.
Orbán has openly stated that the “forces on the side of peace” - read “the Russians” - will be making it a test run for a gambit that might save his own ass in our next election in 2026. He’s actually in the minority for the first time in forever.
Fingers crossed you guys get to avoid becoming another Russian puppet.