EDIT: This is the first round of elections. Second round will be in two weeks time between G. Simion (orange) and N. Dan (green).
It’s interesting to see that most Romanians living in Western Europe voted in favor of the pro-Russian narrative. Many of them are TikTok voters, so it would be insightful to review analytics related to TikTok campaigns in Western Europe.
Connect_Ad718 on
Map of where the more educated Romanians live. (The green parts)
ToastyJackson on
damn, Romania is a lot bigger than I thought
Substantial-Yam7779 on
Imagine being Romanian, who is enjoying the western european living standard’s in Spain/Germany ect.., and voting for the anti EU, pro Russian candidate. Dumb f*cks.
Ilkin0115 on
There are Romanians in Azerbaijan? And they voted pro-EU? Wtf?
Edit: i am pleasantly surprised
PointOk1870 on
Both 1st and 2nd place (ND) have fascist values and are crazed, anti-woman hardcore christians unfortunately. It’s a nightmare.
MiiIRyIKs on
Is it extreme to say I want all of them thrown out of germany etc? I feel like if you come here and live a better life while voting in your home elections to completly screw not only them but also to basically betray the country currently providing you oportunities you should have that opportunity taken from you.
Particular-Star-504 on
Looking at the percentages it’s even crazier, only around 36% in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, but 60-70% in Western Europe?
Kloppite16 on
Do Romanians living abroad get to vote in Romanian elections for life or is there some sort of cut off point? If not then that is a huge flaw.
eu_ro_pa on
Romanian living in Germany. Horrified and sad to see this map 🙁 Don’t get it. If they hate the EU so much, why are they here?! Why can’t they stay in Romania?!
SumoHeadbutt on
What?
Onlythebest1984 on
Massive America W
Not_Cleaver on
I don’t understand the voters in Ukraine. Literally being bombed by Russia, but voting for the pro-Russian candidate.
Eyelbo on
The older I get and the more I know, the more I understand all the events in history.
Like, if you’re pro-Russian and you live in Spain. WTF are you doing here? All kind of wrong thoughts running through my head right now.
Hubertino855 on
It will always be mystery to me why diaspora voters always vote for the most nationalist candidates in their country….
Like BRUH…. Are they overcompensating for or smh????
Strange_Committee1 on
Will Europeans respect the election results or will they force the country to ban the leading candidate again?
The-Nihilist-Marmot on
Also pictured:
Skilled emigration vs unskilled emigration.
Exact same pattern as the Turkish diaspora vote.
SkyGazert on
Countries shouldn’t be enabling participation in foreign elections for naturalized citizens. Once you’ve taken up full citizenship elsewhere, your democratic responsibility shifts. Voting should be limited to those on temporary visas who still have a direct stake. If you still feel compelled to vote, then go back in person, you’d actually have to commit to it. Remote influence without living the local consequences is a distortion of democracy.
SethTaylor987 on
It’s so fucking over, you guys…
This map says too little
The two MAGA candidates got 53.75% between them, with 98.64% of the vote counted
He is very likely to win the run-offs.
evanvelzen on
George Simion is not pro-Russian.
dudthyawesome on
The pro Russia guy (simion) is running on behalf of the nazi – communist – newage man that we had canceled the first round of elections over. And runs the equivalent of the AfD
The 2nd guy (nicusor), is a mathematics Olympic and the current mayor of the capital. He is not from any party.
Edited with names.
Thought they’d be ordered by total number of votes.
CurrencyDesperate286 on
So the pro-Russian Romanians like to avoid the parts of the EU that Russia tried their best to ruin in the 20th century? Rational bunch…
Odd-Organization-740 on
At least Romania can stop being afraid of brain drain to Western Europe.
Dont_Knowtrain on
Ngl Romanians in the MENA world voting for the pro EU is kind of shocking
Interesting_Log-64 on
God I really am fucking stupid it took me forever to realize what this map means
pair-detector on
This map is the essence of misinforming with actual facts.
It’s like saying that elephants have 1 testicle. It’s true. Males have 2, females 0, when you do the statistics, elephants have 1 testicle on average. But it completely hides that you’re actually measuring two different things.
It”s the same with this map. It looks like Romanians in Poland are pro-Europeans and those in Germany pro-Russian.
But this map hides the fact that 1693 people voted from Poland and 163548 voted from Germany.
When you actually look at the data you’ll find that western Europe is where almost all of the foreign Romanians live and very few live in eastern Europe (minus Romania obvs).
ChuckThisNorris on
This is the same story all over the western world: people that fell behind in society and want everything else to burn voting alongside others that made it and want to capitalize their earnings through corrupt governments and not pay their share of taxes. It’s the story of Farange’s Brexit, Trump’s Maga and many others to come. The common denominator is Putin’s Russia, who sees Russia’s safe box as his own and uses it to stay in power and push his own agenda. It’s the dictators wet dream, and Putin promissed to lend a hand to snakeoil salesmen to achieve it. And people are dumb and vote for these scumbags thinking that fascism a la carte is possible: “they will do only the things that I like”.
rxdlhfx on
This is disingenuous. He is a pro-Russian candidate, yes, but people who elected him are not pro-Russian. They simply can’t tell and don’t believe he is pro-Russian. It is just stupidity. Russia is very unpopular amongst Romanians, even the most stupid ones.
FantasticChart7446 on
Most people that voted for him dont even understand he is pro russian sadly…they think they just voted anti-established parties and his opposition made a very bad job to explain how dangerous he is…choosing to tear down each orher instead. For all the people saying we should get out of Europe…should look at countries like Germany,France,Belgium,Usa and other established democracies (far older and better than ours),also falling to the same russian propaganda and voting historically high for far right candidates…it stands to reason we are having bigger problems with it. I would say we should recognize this issue as a europe-wide problem and band together to solve it…not give in to russia and tear each other apart…
Flipadelphia26 on
I thought America has a Russia problem. Looks like it’s Europe that’s infested. 💅
kirrsjenlymsth on
He is not pro russian, but we’re on reddit, no point in arguing why.
MotanulScotishFold on
As a Romanian,
I hoped so hard for Nicusor Dan to end in 2nd place as he was in 3rd position until almost all votes were counted and overtake the other candidate and we now have the only good pro-EU candidate.
It will be terribly difficult to win as many people are so brainwashed into believing the propaganda of anti-eu, anti-nato, and so on. Sadly this is what corruption, terrible education investments, communism trauma does for almost majority of people.
Wish us the best for Nicusor Dan to win or else we’re f*cked and I’ll think myself into emigrating too.
lonelydurrymuncher on
And this ladies and gentlemen is why I, as a Romanian living abroad in the EU, keep my distance from any other romanians here
Ventriloquist_Voice on
Imaging being pro-Russian Romanian in Ukraine after all Russia is doing, still vote like that, they either full throttle pro-Autocracy or just stupid to see what is happening when Russia claiming a space they considering as “Russian sphere”
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EDIT: This is the first round of elections. Second round will be in two weeks time between G. Simion (orange) and N. Dan (green).
It’s interesting to see that most Romanians living in Western Europe voted in favor of the pro-Russian narrative. Many of them are TikTok voters, so it would be insightful to review analytics related to TikTok campaigns in Western Europe.
Map of where the more educated Romanians live. (The green parts)
damn, Romania is a lot bigger than I thought
Imagine being Romanian, who is enjoying the western european living standard’s in Spain/Germany ect.., and voting for the anti EU, pro Russian candidate. Dumb f*cks.
There are Romanians in Azerbaijan? And they voted pro-EU? Wtf?
Edit: i am pleasantly surprised
Both 1st and 2nd place (ND) have fascist values and are crazed, anti-woman hardcore christians unfortunately. It’s a nightmare.
Is it extreme to say I want all of them thrown out of germany etc? I feel like if you come here and live a better life while voting in your home elections to completly screw not only them but also to basically betray the country currently providing you oportunities you should have that opportunity taken from you.
Looking at the percentages it’s even crazier, only around 36% in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, but 60-70% in Western Europe?
Do Romanians living abroad get to vote in Romanian elections for life or is there some sort of cut off point? If not then that is a huge flaw.
Romanian living in Germany. Horrified and sad to see this map 🙁 Don’t get it. If they hate the EU so much, why are they here?! Why can’t they stay in Romania?!
What?
Massive America W
I don’t understand the voters in Ukraine. Literally being bombed by Russia, but voting for the pro-Russian candidate.
The older I get and the more I know, the more I understand all the events in history.
Like, if you’re pro-Russian and you live in Spain. WTF are you doing here? All kind of wrong thoughts running through my head right now.
It will always be mystery to me why diaspora voters always vote for the most nationalist candidates in their country….
Like BRUH…. Are they overcompensating for or smh????
Will Europeans respect the election results or will they force the country to ban the leading candidate again?
Also pictured:
Skilled emigration vs unskilled emigration.
Exact same pattern as the Turkish diaspora vote.
Countries shouldn’t be enabling participation in foreign elections for naturalized citizens. Once you’ve taken up full citizenship elsewhere, your democratic responsibility shifts. Voting should be limited to those on temporary visas who still have a direct stake. If you still feel compelled to vote, then go back in person, you’d actually have to commit to it. Remote influence without living the local consequences is a distortion of democracy.
It’s so fucking over, you guys…
This map says too little
The two MAGA candidates got 53.75% between them, with 98.64% of the vote counted
He is very likely to win the run-offs.
George Simion is not pro-Russian.
The pro Russia guy (simion) is running on behalf of the nazi – communist – newage man that we had canceled the first round of elections over. And runs the equivalent of the AfD
The 2nd guy (nicusor), is a mathematics Olympic and the current mayor of the capital. He is not from any party.
Edited with names.
Thought they’d be ordered by total number of votes.
So the pro-Russian Romanians like to avoid the parts of the EU that Russia tried their best to ruin in the 20th century? Rational bunch…
At least Romania can stop being afraid of brain drain to Western Europe.
Ngl Romanians in the MENA world voting for the pro EU is kind of shocking
God I really am fucking stupid it took me forever to realize what this map means
This map is the essence of misinforming with actual facts.
It’s like saying that elephants have 1 testicle. It’s true. Males have 2, females 0, when you do the statistics, elephants have 1 testicle on average. But it completely hides that you’re actually measuring two different things.
It”s the same with this map. It looks like Romanians in Poland are pro-Europeans and those in Germany pro-Russian.
But this map hides the fact that 1693 people voted from Poland and 163548 voted from Germany.
When you actually look at the data you’ll find that western Europe is where almost all of the foreign Romanians live and very few live in eastern Europe (minus Romania obvs).
This is the same story all over the western world: people that fell behind in society and want everything else to burn voting alongside others that made it and want to capitalize their earnings through corrupt governments and not pay their share of taxes. It’s the story of Farange’s Brexit, Trump’s Maga and many others to come. The common denominator is Putin’s Russia, who sees Russia’s safe box as his own and uses it to stay in power and push his own agenda. It’s the dictators wet dream, and Putin promissed to lend a hand to snakeoil salesmen to achieve it. And people are dumb and vote for these scumbags thinking that fascism a la carte is possible: “they will do only the things that I like”.
This is disingenuous. He is a pro-Russian candidate, yes, but people who elected him are not pro-Russian. They simply can’t tell and don’t believe he is pro-Russian. It is just stupidity. Russia is very unpopular amongst Romanians, even the most stupid ones.
Most people that voted for him dont even understand he is pro russian sadly…they think they just voted anti-established parties and his opposition made a very bad job to explain how dangerous he is…choosing to tear down each orher instead. For all the people saying we should get out of Europe…should look at countries like Germany,France,Belgium,Usa and other established democracies (far older and better than ours),also falling to the same russian propaganda and voting historically high for far right candidates…it stands to reason we are having bigger problems with it. I would say we should recognize this issue as a europe-wide problem and band together to solve it…not give in to russia and tear each other apart…
I thought America has a Russia problem. Looks like it’s Europe that’s infested. 💅
He is not pro russian, but we’re on reddit, no point in arguing why.
As a Romanian,
I hoped so hard for Nicusor Dan to end in 2nd place as he was in 3rd position until almost all votes were counted and overtake the other candidate and we now have the only good pro-EU candidate.
It will be terribly difficult to win as many people are so brainwashed into believing the propaganda of anti-eu, anti-nato, and so on. Sadly this is what corruption, terrible education investments, communism trauma does for almost majority of people.
Wish us the best for Nicusor Dan to win or else we’re f*cked and I’ll think myself into emigrating too.
And this ladies and gentlemen is why I, as a Romanian living abroad in the EU, keep my distance from any other romanians here
Imaging being pro-Russian Romanian in Ukraine after all Russia is doing, still vote like that, they either full throttle pro-Autocracy or just stupid to see what is happening when Russia claiming a space they considering as “Russian sphere”