Let’s talk from Romania. And let’s do it without hypocrisy. Because what happened in a democratic country, a member of the European Union and NATO, is something truly incredible.
There is little to be philosophical about here: 19 million Romanians voted for a gentleman in the first round, Calin Georgescu, who perhaps “comes from nowhere”, as they say, but who nevertheless had his own past, his own history, including a job at the UN, and leads his own pro-Russian nationalist party. Of course: you may not like it and it certainly isn’t ours cup of tea. But he got 30% of the votes and it is absurd that a few days before the run-off, which would have most likely seen him the winner, the Romanian Constitutional Court decides to cancel everything. Even more so since the second place, Elena Lasconiwhich he should have challenged Georgescu and who in theory could have channeled all the pro-EU votes towards her, is a liberal pro-Nato lady who now with the repetition of the vote could exit the race in favor (coincidentally) of the outgoing social democratic prime minister Marcel Ciolacu.
Today everyone seems to be whistling. But canceling elections in a democratic country is a very serious decision. How can we criticize other states, see theHungary Of Orban or the autocrats of the East, if we are not scandalized that a Bucharest the vote be canceled without yet having found evidence of the alleged fraud?
Because that’s the point. Have they found these frauds? No, not yet. The prosecutor’s office opened an investigation into voter corruption, money laundering and computer forgery. Police searched buildings in Bucharest, Ilfov, Timis, Maramures, Salas and Neamt. The same goes for three buildings Brasov, in particular in the villa and in the offices of Bogdan Peschirthe cryptocurrency magnate who paid a series of influencers 1 million euros to “push” the pro-Russian candidate on Tik Tok. He would be the Kremlin’s bridgehead to favor the pro-Russia front. The prosecutor’s office is looking for evidence not only of foreign “hybrid attacks” during the election campaign, but also of alleged “illicit financing” in favor of Georgescu.
Yesterday the Court explained that it intervened after having received information from the secret services regarding “fraud capable of modifying the assignment of the presidential mandate and the order of candidates who could have participated in the second electoral round”. Did it happen? Maybe, let’s be clear. However, can two weeks of bombing on Tik Tok upset the outcome of the vote? It all remains to be proven. But what is certain is that the elections were annulled based on assumptions all still to be verified. And which, as often happens in trials, not only in Italy, could also prove to be unfounded. Wouldn’t it have been more logical to conclude the electoral process, investigate as per the manual and, in case of certain evidence and various convictions, annul the electoral result ex post?
What happened in Romania has all the hallmarks of a coup d’état, very similar to what happened in South Korea, and if we don’t have the courage to say it we are fearful. We must affirm it to defend a principle, rather than the candidate who should have won: if European democracy pretends to use gods dictatorial and hypocritical toolsat this point the coups carried out by the military were almost better.
We piss off Orban because he takes away some rights from his citizens. Well. And what is the first right of a democracy if not that the vote of the electors cannot be canceled by a sentence of one Constitutional Court any? Unless of course there is obvious fraud. But are we talking here about an electoral process where the organization was entrusted to the government, where the police commissioners answer to the government, where the interior minister is from the government and they cancel the result after the government candidate is excluded from the ballot? To think that Putin’s great frauds came thanks to Tik Tok is, frankly, downright laughable.