During the recent do-over Romanian presidential elections, the European Union (EU) once again demonstrated severe contempt for the rights of its people as the globalist body attempted to influence the result in its own favor. The irony of these circumstances cannot be overstated; the EU itself cancelled the first elections after spurious allegations of the same behavior that the EU itself undertook this time around.
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov leveled startling allegations that French officials attempted to manipulate him into censoring conservative voices in the months leading up to the Romanian election. Durov, who is already under investigation by French authorities, refused to comply with their demands despite any backlash he may personally endure as a result of his defiance.
"This spring at the Salon des Batailles in the Hôtel de Crillon, Nicolas Lerner, head of French intelligence, asked me to ban conservative voices in Romania ahead of elections. I refused," Durov wrote in an X post on Sunday. "We didn't block protesters in Russia, Belarus, or Iran. We won't start doing it in Europe."
This news only adds to a growing legitimacy crisis involving the Romanian government. The EU ultimately achieved what it wanted during the election: a moderate centrist, Nicușor Dan, prevailing over his right-wing competitor, George Simion. But Simion is calling for an annulment of the election due to outside interference, and Durov is willing to cooperate with any investigation.
“We now have irrefutable evidence of meddling by France, Moldova, and other actors in an orchestrated effort to manipulate institutions, direct media narratives, and ultimately impose a result that does not reflect the sovereign will of the Romanian people,” Simion wrote in a press release on Monday.
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What Simion suggests is not without precedent; in fact, the EU and its affiliates did the exact same thing months ago in Romania itself! They cancelled the presidential election in the middle of the process after independent populist Călin Georgescu meteorically soared to the top of the polls and won the first round.
“The very reasons used to annul the December elections—external influence and institutional compromise—are even more clearly present today,” Simion stated.
The first election was cancelled because of vague and unproven allegations of Russian meddling, with officials arguing that Russian bots amplified Georgescu’s TikTok following. This is similar to the rationale that was concocted during the widespread attempt to cast United States President Donald J. Trump’s 2016 presidential victory as fraudulent.
When the time came to redo the Romanian presidential elections, Georgescu was hit with six criminal charges and effectively banned from appearing on the ballot. There is every reason to believe that had Georgescu been allowed to run, he would have won the Romanian presidential election by a considerable margin.
United States Vice President J.D. Vance has been vocal in opposition to the EU’s meddlesome behavior in Romania and its apparent disregard for representing the honest views of EU citizens. Vance chastised the European bureaucrats for not living up to their democratic norms during the Munich Security Conference in February.
“Romania straight up canceled the results of a presidential election based on the flimsy suspicions of an intelligence agency and enormous pressure from its continental neighbors,” Vance said then.
“Now, as I understand it, the argument was that Russian disinformation had infected the Romanian elections, but I’d ask my European friends to have some perspective,” he continued.
“You can believe it’s wrong for Russia to buy social media advertisements to influence your elections. We certainly do. But if your democracy can be destroyed with a few hundred thousand dollars of digital advertising from a foreign country, then it wasn’t very strong to begin with,” Vance observed, horrifying EU bureaucrats who prefer never to speak these truths.
Romania is far from an outlier. The EU has frequently embraced rank authoritarianism to suppress nationalist and populist political opposition. French populist leader Marine Le Pen - a leading candidate for President of France - was banned in March from running for the presidency after being charged with violating an EU edict. This decision raises even further questions now that the involvement of French intelligence in Romania has been publicized. Mere days after topping the German opinion polls for the first time, the Alternative for Germany party was classified as an extremist group in May (based on spurious accusations which were widely mocked when leaked to the media) and put under government surveillance. Even as early as 2009, Irish voters were made to vote a second time in a referendum to approve the Lisbon Treaty, an unprecedented power-grab which centralized authority within the EU bureaucracy, after rejecting it by a wide margin just a year prior.
A democratic society cannot function without freedom of speech. This is why the Founding Fathers wrote the 1st Amendment into the Constitution. They understood that a robust marketplace of ideas is necessary for the masses to make well-informed decisions. If a candidate or an ideology cannot hold up to public scrutiny, it does not deserve to succeed.
The EU system has grown extremely unpopular for its cumbersome regulations, endemic corruption, embrace of illegal immigration, and contempt for national identity. The EU’s only option is to censor and attempt an Orwellian sleight-of-hand by convincing the public they are upending democracy to save democracy. The temporary victory they may have achieved in Romania through this cynical scheme will be a pyrrhic one.
The United States endured this form of hypocrisy under the Biden Regime, and Americans decisively rejected it during last year’s election, and, in time, Europeans will follow. The EU is hammering the final nails into its coffin through its frenzied overreach. They have emerged as belligerent opponents of the liberal traditions that made Western Civilization into humanity’s crown jewel. With the EU’s new Digital Services Act, there is a clear risk that Brussels’ authoritarian outlook towards online freedoms may reach US shores. The Trump Administration will therefore take the international mantle and guide political discourse toward open expression and a world where the people, not a contemptuous cabal of self-serving elitists, decide who their leaders will be.
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