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There's some weird shit going on in Romania. Beyond what you've probably heard so far.

So everyone knows that we had an election cancelled, because the guy who was came in first in the 1st round was... dubious, according to authorities. This isn't really about that.

It's about the lady that came in 2nd. A lady named Elena Lasconi, from the USR party (United we Save Romania). Her politics and the politics of the party matter less (they're supposed to be right wing, but at the same time they're considered "progressive". Make of that what you will, I personally resigned myself to the idea that our politics are backwards for a long time).

What gathered my attention, and what I'm concerned about, is that her party is suddenly retracting their support of her running for the do-over of the presidential elections. And for the life of me, I can't comprehend why.

While she personally scares the shit out of me, because her face reminds me of Hillary Clinton, from my point of view she has proved herself that she has a lot of public support, that she could win the race. She already achieved a great result for her party in the cancelled elections. Why is she getting replaced by her party?! She already proved that she can attract votes, that among her party, she is likely the best candidate.

Considering USR was one of the smaller parties before this (and it still kinda is), and that they never had a candidate pass the 1st round of presidential elections, shouldn't the person that managed this performance for the first time in the party's short history be kept as their go to candidate for the do-over of what is basically the same election?

I haven't seen her say or do anything in the past few months since this whole fiasco started that would justify taking away their support of Lasconi.

There have been some changes in polling, that is true. But that's after a new guy, Nicușor Dan, who used to be a big figure head in the party (not sure where his home is these days) announced that he's joining the race, and USR members have been slowly showing their support for him. And now the party is doing it officially. So it feels like it's not something Lasconi did wrong, but rather the party went behind her back and got the new guy, so the polls started to reflect what the party was doing. If the new guy hadn't come into the picture, and Lasconi had her party's full support, I don't see why her score couldn't have been the same.

Which has me worried. Why bring Nicușor Dan into this, when you had a candidate that proved herself? My concern is that someone is trying to protect the guy from the law, cause the president is completely immune from prosecution. What did he do that we're not aware of? Who is pulling the strings? How deep do things go?

We've already had 2 presidents that were deeply corrupt before. Well, technically all our presidents post communism were corrupt in some way or another. But the last 2 were a bit more spicy. Are we getting another bastard that we'll find out afterwards that he did god knows what, and nobody does anything about it for a decade?

And are we gonna struggle again with 80% of the media playing defense for the corrupt bastard? I still remember them playing defense for Băsescu, and insisting that he didn't work for the Securitate (our version of the KGB), only to find out AFTER he left office that he was indeed a snitch for communist secret services, which actually rendered him incompatible to serve office in the first place.

I'm still waiting to see if we'll find out how the president after him managed to buy 7 houses, when he and his wife were just highschool teachers, and if it has anything to do with the child trafficking rumors.

The solution to escape crimes over here seems to be:
1) become president
2) put your favorite state prosecutor into place, and have him owe you one (and possibly your party too)
3) ....
4) profit.

So far Băsescu is the only one that has gotten any attention from the justice system, and that's only for the Securitate (KGB) thing. He's suspected of a lot more things. So the method works.

Of course, the beauty is that EU had no issue with these bastards, and were perfectly happy with them. And Nicușor Dan and USR are perfectly happy to repeat the "EU is ALL GOOD" mantra, so they're definitely not rocking any boat either. So I'm of course also a bit worried of the possibility that Nicușor has been picked to some degree by EU leadership, so that he'll maintain the servile colony status-quo that we've had since 2007. The only Romanian party that is viewed as progressive, I mean, what's not to like from an EU perspective? And between Nicușor Dan and Elena Lasconi, this is gonna sound weird, but somehow Lasconi seems to have more of a spine and balls than Nicușor does. So he'd be a better pick for them.

You know what this reminds me of... Hilary Clinton getting the DNC support over Bernie Sanders back in 2016. Yeah... it just smells fishy to me...