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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.

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[–] febra@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago

"hard-right"? That guy is far-right and has ties to actual fascist groups

[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 57 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Can breathe a sigh of relief for another year or so... Until the next election in a EU country.

Viktor Orban is not going to be around forever, Russia is desperate to get more obstructionists into power in the EU.

If im not Mistaken, Czechia is the next to have an election where a Euroskeptic , Pro Trump/Putin , or Isolationist candidate is in the running and has a chance? Someone is welcome to educate me on that.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 19 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Until the next election in a EU country.

Viktor Orban is not going to be around forever

He's up for reelection in April 2026, and he's going to lose badly as it looks like now. Orange line is his party. And this summary is skewed most likely and overestimates him, as it takes his own polls into account, you can see that big outlier orange dot over everything on the right. In the current fucked up system, a lead like this is almost enough to rewrite the constitution.

(Legend is a bit confusing, it's TISZA getting ahead, not MSZP, luckily.)

Hungary has hope now.

Sauce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2026_Hungarian_parliamentary_election

[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 14 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

nothing is certain.

Look at what happened in the last 12 months in Canada, and how the Conservatives went from unbeatable, a 25-35% lead, to ultimatley losing

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 12 points 11 hours ago

You're right, but I'll take this over anything in the past 30 years. And it will get messy, Orbán will not leave peacefully. But he is making mistake after mistake. These polls don't reflect taking the side of the losing Hungarophobic (no, really) Romanian Nazi presidential candidate Simion - TISZA leadership are literally walking 300km to Oradea from Budapest in a unifying gesture as we speak. And a lot of other things that have happened, like the recent scandal when it was revealed they were / are still trying to start an own invasion of Ukraine. Also Trump.

The DK for example just imploded and are likely to disappear. MM has conceded the election in advance in favour of TISZA.

That said, Orbán can and will change the election system in the coming year, and there is a lot of shit still coming. But something has broken in the system in Hungary in the past 6 months that can't be rebuilt as it was.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

and he's going to lose badly as it looks like now.

we were assuming that for how many cycles now?

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 hours ago

Gyurcsány fucking off is new, you have to admit that.

[–] gingernate@sopuli.xyz 5 points 10 hours ago

As an American, where the fuck are our 38 year olds?!

[–] ZeroGravitas@lemm.ee 78 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

That's Romania saying no to MAGA style populism.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 2 points 2 hours ago

About half the people who voted said yes to that

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 33 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

It's been a good run lately, we've eked out wins in Germany, France, Canada, Australia, Croatia, and Romania

[–] VirgilMastercard@reddthat.com 41 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 14 points 11 hours ago

It's been happening in the US for a long time too.

[–] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 13 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

keeping them out and the win in the courts is a start.

[–] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] inlandempire@jlai.lu 33 points 13 hours ago

Good job Romanians, let's watch how this Dan guy does in other aspects of politics, and keep him accountable

[–] Horsey@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

What a gigantic sigh of relief

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

Good job Romania!

[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 3 points 12 hours ago

Send the Nazis packing!

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

The article shows a photo of voting booths with curtains, with neighbouring booths coloured like the Romanian flag.

Do we have any Romanians here? Can you confirm whether or not they actually do this? That's honestly hilariously awesome if so.

[–] skye@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

I suppose it depends on the building, where I went to vote (and most places i've seen in live coverages) just had plain blueish curtains