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speak easy

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Mon May 19, 2025, 03:06 PM May 19

Krasnov (and Vance) have lost another election.

Pro-EU centrist wins Romanian presidency in stunning reversal

Pro-EU centrist Nicuşor Dan won Romania’s presidential run-off on Sunday, defeating an ultranationalist Eurosceptic who had topped the first round and raised fears about the country’s pro-western orientation.

Dan, a 55-year-old mathematician and mayor of the capital Bucharest, secured more than 54 per cent of the vote compared with nearly 46 per cent for George Simion, a former football hooligan turned leader of the far-right AUR party, after more than 97 per cent of votes had been counted.

The mayor’s victory caps months of political and economic turmoil triggered by the cancellation of a previous vote due to alleged Russian interference, which put Bucharest in Moscow’s and Washington’s crosshairs and split the nation over its way forward.

https://www.ft.com/content/194a6fd6-9d90-4e25-8408-d6707eb818ca
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Krasnov (and Vance) have lost another election. (Original Post) speak easy May 19 OP
"Don't kry for Krasnov, Komrades." - from the broadway musical Krasnov's Korrupt Kapers (R) BoRaGard May 19 #1

BoRaGard

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1. "Don't kry for Krasnov, Komrades." - from the broadway musical Krasnov's Korrupt Kapers (R)
Mon May 19, 2025, 03:11 PM
May 19

He's got the whole world rejecting the fugly republicon billionionaire korporo-kristo
fascism brand he embodies, and gluttonizes.

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