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ER Editor: It’s getting complicated in Romania. ‘Outside’, anti-globalist presidential candidate Calin Georgescu won in the first round of the presidential elections on November 24. Which came as a shock. The following weekend, December 1, were the Romanian parliamentary elections. And last weekend, December 8, should have seen the 2nd and final round of the presidential elections, which Georgescu stood a chance of winning, but Romania’s Constitutional Court cancelled it to great outcry from all sides because … Russian election interference. Where have we heard that before?!
The Romanian parliamentary elections in the intervening weekend (Dec 1) produced an upset for the Social Democrats and Liberal coalition, which lost its majority in both houses of parliament. Right-wing parties gained significant ground, obtaining an historic 30% share of the vote. Which sounds like a predictable state of affairs for European elections at the moment, a swing to the populist right.
Just like in France, where four left-leaning groups miraculously combined their efforts to oppose Le Pen (who should have won) following the July 7 vote, Romania is seeing the same play from its declining left/globalist parties. And voters get to see how ‘democracy’ works. As the article predicts below, this sudden coalition to keep out Romania’s populists will have a hard time getting its act together, just like in France where the Left came out looking chaotic and stupid. Was this the whole point?
Waking up the normies.
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Romanian pro-European parties agree to form coalition government
Parties also considering supporting single candidate in re-run of annulled presidential election
Romania’s pro-European parties have reached a commitment to form a governing majority that cordons off the hard right and potentially endorses a single candidate for a rerun of the country’s annulled presidential election. (ER: A two-in-one shot.)
The ruling leftist Social Democrats won the most seats in the parliamentary election on 1 December, which also resulted in three ultranationalist and hard-right groupings, some with overt pro-Russian sympathies, winning more than a third of seats.
The parliamentary ballot was sandwiched in between two rounds of a presidential election, during which the far-right NATO-critic Călin Georgescu emerged from relative obscurity to become the shock frontrunner.
That prompted accusations of Russian meddling before the country’s top court annulled the presidential vote on Friday and said the entire process would need to be rerun.
The new government will need to come up with a new calendar for the presidential election, likely in the first part of 2025.
The outgoing president, Klaus Iohannis, who will stay on until a new president is sworn in, will nominate a prime minister. The current legislative term ends on 21 December.
On Monday, the Social Democrats, their current coalition partners the centre-right Liberals, the opposition centrist Save Romania Union and the ethnic Hungarian party agreed to quickly form a pro-European government.
“In the coming days, the four parties and representatives of national minorities will work on a common governing programme based on development and reforms which will consider the priorities of Romanian citizens,” a joint statement said.
Analysts expect the four parties, which have clashed often on policy issues, will struggle to agree measures needed to lower the EU’s largest budget deficit at 8% of economic output.
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Featured image source, Calin Georgescu: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/25/europe/romania-election-calin-georgescu-far-right-intl/index.html
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