Romania: Massive Crowds Assemble in Protest of Government Voiding Election Because the Right-Wing Guy Won

What sort of a thing is it to just decide an election is canceled because the government doesn’t like the results?

Who believes in this “democracy” bullshit at this point?

I’ve argued consistently that no one actually cares about democracy, the only thing people care about is the people they support being in power. If anyone supported an elected figure and then that figure said “you know what, I’m just going to become a dictator, lol,” all of their supporters would support that move. No one other than people in the media and in the government itself talk about “it’s our values that we have to vote.”

Normal people (at least males) care about freedom and prosperity. They want a government that provides those things. Obviously, democracy does not really provide these things, at least not to the masses of people. But people will go vote because they want something better.

But if the government can just cancel the vote because the person people voted for is “against democracy,” then why vote at all?

And if voting is not a solution to changing the government, to petitioning grievances, then what is there left for people to do other than violently overthrowing the government?

It’s a serious question.

What are the options? Specifically?

Reuters:

Tens of thousands of Romanians angered by the cancellation of a presidential election marched through Bucharest on Sunday to demand that the ballot should go ahead and that outgoing centrist President Klaus Iohannis should resign.

In a move that polarised voters, Romania’s top court voided the presidential election on Dec. 6, two days before the second round.

It didn’t polarize voters because some people really love voting and others do not. It polarized voters because some people support the right-wing guy and others do not.

Either side will support canceling the election if it’s their opponent getting canceled.

The cancellation came after state documents showed frontrunner Calin Georgescu, a critic of NATO, had benefited from an unfair social media campaign likely to have been orchestrated by Russia, accusations Moscow has denied.

The court ordered that the election be re-run in its entirety. The pro-European coalition government has yet to approve a calendar for the election, although party leaders agreed to hold the two rounds on May 4 and May 18.

Iohannis, whose term expired on Dec. 21, will stay on until his successor is elected.

On Sunday, tens of thousands of protesters, including left-wingers and those angered by the way the way the election was cancelled, joined the protest organised by the opposition hard-right Alliance for Uniting Romanians (AUR), Romania’s second-largest party.

“We ask for a return to democracy by resuming the election with the second round,” AUR leader George Simion told reporters.

Organizers said 100,000 people were at the protest, but riot police along the march estimated the numbers at around 20,000. Protesters waved flags and shouted “Freedom” and “Bring back the second round.”

It remains unclear whether Georgescu, who opposes Romanian support for Ukraine against Russia’s invasion, will be allowed to run for president again.

Well, it wouldn’t make a lot of sense to let him run again, would it?

He’s banned from democracy because his beliefs are against our values in a democracy.

This is a farce. The entire system running the Western world is about as serious as an Elon Musk Path of Exile 2 stream.