Per le attuali elezioni presidenziali in Romania, questa è la quarta volta consecutiva che il candidato George Simion non è riuscito a presentarsi per uno scontro televisivo, mentre Nicușo Dan è sempre stato presente.

Because he is a coward.

“Has failed” kind of means that he tried to go but he could not. In reality, he just didn’t want to go because he was afraid of Nicusor Dan.

Last time Dan and Simion had a presidential debate, Simion lost 5% or so in the pools.

Now the question is: is he going to maintain his lead by not attending these debates or he’ll lose even more?

Simion is afraid because he knows he can be much more easily cornered. There are a lot of uncomfortable questions that he could be asked.

Not only that, but he doesn’t know how to answer questions about government, economy, etc. No matter what the question is, he always does some mental gymnastics and ends up talking about “those who stole from us all these years”.

A loser who claimed he would attend all the debates, but got knocked out in the first one. Now he’s running away like a coward because he has no plan – just pretends to know what he’s doing. He’s going to lose big time. We call him the empty chair 🪑.

He’s a coward

Like a lot of extremists in the world, they scream at the top of their voices but got 0 solutions. People still vote them cuz they think screaming fixes the issue

Unfortunately it’ll probably only bolster his support.

Right-wing populists run on resentment towards the system and rejection of established norms.

Not attending debates is like giving the system and the opposition the finger which is exactly what his base want to see.

Oh and the favorite absentee, George Simion, just proposed to finally come again to a debate, but only if his counter candidate doesn’t come. I thought it was a joke at first. It seems his previous and only debate he attended got him extremely scared of Nicușor Dan. To be fair he was clearly outperformed by Dan.

Well, it would be good for some countries if their presidents simply disappeared into thin air

Simion is really going on the Orbánian route. Last time cloisterpig had a debate was in 2006 which cost him an election. He will not make the same mistake by going up against oppo candidates. He just invalidates them using Russian tactics.

Hopefully Nicusor wins the election but lets be real if Simion becomes President it’s not like he has a lot of power. In Romania the President is more a … mascot. He has the power to propose some people in the judicial branch and other bullshit but at the end of the day he needs the Parliament to have any sort of leverage in his plans and currently Simion (or Nicusor) don’t have anyone in the Parliament they can do big stuff with.

Romania is a Parliamentary State not one run by the President like the United States. So the damange an idiot like Simion would do is minimal. It would be bad for our image to have an idiot in charge, but it’s not like its the first time our politicians made Romania a laughing stalk to westerners or the US.

I would LOVE to see debates for Parliamentary Elections, those are the ones that matter in Romania and most of the world. Not this bullshit mascot race. Romanians have an unhealthy love for voting for their President as if that will have any change in their lives, and yet they vote the same idiots more or less in the Parliament for 30+ years. Paradoxical don’t you think?

All of the Presidents attributes rely on good cooperation with the government and parliament, and guess who votes for those people? The dumb masses who have voted the same idiots in their comfy government and parliament chairs for 30+ years.

So yeah i am very indiferent as to who wins as it won’t have much effect on my day to day life. Romania already is becoming a shithole due to idiotic government and parliament, it can’t get much worse. But I would also like for Nicusor to win since he seems like a cool guy.