Elections Liberal Mayor Wins in Romania; Liberal Mayor Wins Primary in Poland; Centre-Right Party Lead in Portugal

[Siver!]

Romania’s liberal mayor wins presidency, as Portugal and Poland’s election results come in

Romanian, Portuguese and Polish nationals have been casting their ballots, with millions of Europeans taking to the polls on Sunday.

www.bbc.co.uk

• Bucharest's liberal Mayor Nicusor Dan has won Romania's presidential race, beating right-wing nationalist George Simion
• Romania's previous election result was annulled late last year after a far-right conspiracy theorist was blocked from the top job amid claims of Russian interference
• Poland, Portugal and Romania have all been holding elections on Sunday, with millions of Europeans voting
• In Poland, Warsaw's liberal Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski has narrowly won the first round of the presidential election, according to an exit poll on Polish TV
• Elsewhere, in Portugal the centre right Democratic Alliance (AD) party looks set to win the country's general election, according to an exit poll, but appears likely to fall short of a majority

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It's a busy time in Europe re: elections.

Anyone from any of these countries have any input into what's happened and what's happening?

 

[nostradumbass]

Pretty generous to still call it an election when the real rulers just throw out results they don't like and take out candidates they don't want until they get the result they wanted. It's pretty much an installation at that point.

 

[Snubnoze707]

So they throw out the winner and don't allow him to run again, then this puppet gets in. Doesn't sound like Democracy.

Biggest fail in Romania since the Stoica Brothers Kickboxing careers...

 

[Kingz]

In Romania..didn’t Simion dominate the first round so much that it was considered pretty much a certainly he was next?

Sounds rigged…and considering they have cancelled elections that didn’t go their way they don’t really have much credibility to say it wasn’t rigged

US should sanction them. Such small potatoes to be acting so brazen.

 

[The_Renaissance]

I find it a bit weird that two countries who have been historically and culturally right-leaning forever, suddenly both vote in a liberal. It doesn't feel organic to me at all.

 

[BroRogan]

Speaking of Romania. This whole "election" was a farce after they removed the first guy under the flimsiest of excuses. Voting is the illusion of choice for the masses.

 

[Yehudim]

In Romania..didn’t Simion dominate the first round so much that it was considered pretty much a certainly he was next?

Sounds rigged…and considering they have cancelled elections that didn’t go their way they don’t really have much credibility to say it wasn’t rigged

US should sanction them. Such small potatoes to be acting so brazen.

I understood that it was indeed rigged but by Russia and in favor of the candidate that got removed.

 

[EL CORINTHIAN]

I understood that it was indeed rigged but by Russia and in favor of the candidate that got removed.

This is the new strategy in the lefty playbook.

Right wing party gaining favor? Label them Putin/Trump collaborators and claim the election is rigged.

Left wing party wins election? Real democracy.

 

[Kingz]

 

[Siver!]

Who is Poland's newly elected president, Karol Nawrocki?

The conservative candidate beat liberal Rafał Trzaskowski with a narrow 50.89% of the vote in the presidential election runoff on Sunday. #EuropeNews

www.euronews.com

He sounds fairly sensible.

Not one of the raging ultra nationalist ding dongs with just one hymn sheet and no ability to rule, but an actual conservative.

 

[Flower2dPeople]

He sounds fairly sensible.