Thousands of Romanians Protest Canceled Presidential Election
by John Haward, Breitbart.com, January 10, 2025Thousands of Romanians gathered on Friday outside the parliament building in Bucharest, which also houses the country’s Constitutional Court, to protest the court’s annulment of the November presidential election.
Outsider populist Calin Georgescu was the runaway leader in the election, but the court nullified the entire vote over allegations of Russian interference.
Georgescu, invariably described as a “far-right populist” by international media, shocked the Romanian political establishment by roaring into first place in pre-election polling. His success was all the more remarkable because his campaign spent very little money on advertising; in fact, he claimed he spent nothing at all.
Georgescu built an enormous following on social media, running as an admirer of American President-elect Donald Trump, a skeptic of funding for Ukraine, an economic nationalist, a Christian conservative, and a very spirited critic of left-wing billionaire George Soros. Polls showed him drawing heavy support from religious conservatives and people frustrated with the bottomless corruption of Romanian government.
Click Here to Watch the Newest We the People Convention News & Opinion Podcast!
One of the major criticisms raised against Georgescu was that he spoke admiringly of Russian President Vladimir Putin as “a man who loves his country,” although he insisted he did not agree with Putin’s agenda.
Georgescu was dismissed as a fringe candidate by Romanian media until he suddenly burst into the lead in polls, then won the first round of the presidential election with 23 percent of the vote. Political analysts confidently predicted he would be crushed in the second round, as lower-ranked candidates dropped out and the anti-Georgescu vote consolidated around a single champion — but suddenly, he was leading in the second round by a seemingly unsurmountable margin.
A week before the second-round vote was to be held, declassified Romanian intelligence documents were released that accused Georgescu of benefiting from 25,000 phony TikTok accounts created by a Russian disinformation campaign. The documents also claimed Russia disrupted the Romanian election system with a massive cyberattack.
Romania’s top prosecutor announced these allegations would be investigated as “electoral crimes” and then, two days before the vote, the Constitutional Court nullified the entire election. Enraged Georgescu supporters flooded the streets, complaining about a stolen election and rigged system. They returned to their protests on Friday, waving Romanian flags and chanting: “We voted, you stole from us … Give us back the second round.”
Demonstrators also argued the administration of President Klaus Iohannis was illegitimate because it should have ended on December 22 following the election. Some of the marchers called for Iohannis to be arrested and denounced members of his government as “traitors.”
A new election in Romania has been scheduled for May 4, with a runoff vote on May 18 if necessary. Current polls suggest a majority of Romanians disagree with the annulment of the November election, and there is every chance Georgescu could win the new vote. Georgescu has urged Romanians to sign a petition demanding not a new election from scratch, but the aborted second-round runoff that would have seen him facing Lasconi, the second-place finisher in November.
Former European Commissioner and Wannabe Tyrant Thierry Breton Says EU May Cancel German Elections if Right-Wing AfD Wins
by Paul Serran, The Gateway Pundit, January 10, 2025
If you were scandalized by the European powers sweeping in to force Romania to cancel its Presidential Elections out of fear of right-winger Calin Georgescu, you better buckle up, according to former European Commissioner—and wannabe tyrant—Thierry Breton.
A Eurofanatic and enthusiast for censorship online, Breton had to resign from the EU after unsuccessfully trying to keep the Elon Musk/Donald Trump podcast from being broadcast.
In an interview on Thursday, Breton said that Elon Musk’s ‘interference’ in the upcoming elections in Germany ‘could lead to a cancellation of the election results.’
Breton said that freedom of speech is a ‘fundamental element’ in Europe, commenting on Musk podcast with Alice Weidel on X – but…
“Thierry Breton nevertheless called for keeping calm in the face of this situation that is developing in Germany, mentioning the example of Romania. ‘Let’s enforce our laws in Europe when they are likely to be circumvented and if they are not enforced can lead to interference. We did it in Romania and it will obviously have to be done, if necessary, in Germany’, he concluded.”
There we have it – he ‘calmly’ suggests overriding the popular vote in Germany if it does not fit his Globalist point of view.
“’From the moment it is broadcast in Europe with a regulated platform, Elon Musk has to follow European rules. With the AfD, we have to follow them. It is obvious that we will take all measures to ensure that he respects the law. If he does not respect it, there are fines and the possibility of ban’, he continued, recalling that Elon Musk must comply with European rules.”
German Anti-Mass Migration AfD Party Surges in Polls Ahead of Election
by Kurtz Zindulka, Breitbart.com, January 8, 2025The populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has begun to surge while establishment parties continue to slide as Germans prepare to head to the polls for a federal election in February.
A survey from YouGov found that the anti-mass migration AfD party has risen by two points over the previous poll to 21 per cent support, putting the party firmly in second place ahead of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD), which fell by two points to just 16 per cent, Welt reports.
The neo-liberal Christian Democratic Union (CDU), formerly led by ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel, dropped by a point over the previous survey but remains ahead at 29 per cent. Meanwhile, the former ‘traffic light’ coalition partner Greens stand at 14 per cent, followed by leftist populist Sahra Wagenknecht’s eponymous BSW party at 6 per cent, the Free Democrats at 5 per cent, and the Left party at 3 per cent.
The federal election, which will be held on February 23 in Germany, was sparked after the collapse of Scholz’s leftist government in November over disagreements on the national budget and concern that a weak and divided government in Berlin would not be able to grapple with incoming U.S. President Donald Trump.
AfD’s surge in the polls comes after yet another terror attack in the country, with a ‘refugee’ from Saudi Arabia being accused of using a rental car to kill six people and injure nearly 300 at a Christmas market in Magdeburg last month.
The Alternative for Germany has also been bolstered by support from Tesla owner Elon Musk, who declared last month on his X social media platform that “only the AfD can save Germany.”
Click Here to Follow the WTPC on Twitter/x! - Don't Foget to Click the Follow Button!
Musk is also set to conduct a live interview on X next week with AfD chancellor candidate and party co-leader Alice Weidel, sparking accusations from globalists in Europe that the American tech billionaire is “interfering” in European politics.
The X boss has rejected the notion that expressing an opinion or speaking to a politician represents interference and has claimed that the response has been hypocritical given the long-term involvement of other billionaires, such as George Soros and Bill Gates, in European affairs.
YouGov’s survey found that while nearly six in ten (59 per cent) of German voters believe that Musk’s endorsement would help the AfD, a majority still felt it would not play a significant role in the upcoming election.
Surging support for the anti-mass migration party comes amid continued debate over whether the government should ban the AfD outright, which some unironically claim would be necessary to preserve German democracy.
However, the campaign to ban the party suffered a major blow this week, with influential Berlin Senator Felor Badenberg opposing the move. Given her previous role as the Vice President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), the body that would make the final determination of a ban, Badenberg’s opinion will likely carry weight.
When asked this week if she would support banning the party, she said, “A clear no,” adding, “Anyone who looks at the AfD’s program will not find enough to support a ban procedure.”
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE NEWS AT BREITART.COM
