It was all set up from the start; all it needed was the headline: «Russian interference». A magic label that always works in the West: stick it on a political opponent and the job’s done. This time it was Romania’s turn, where, on November 24 last year, a certain Călin Georgescu won the first round. Someone who — shock, horror — hadn’t asked Brussels for permission to run. Vote share: 22.9%. Enough to trigger Plan B: the Constitutional Court annulled the vote. Official reason: «multiple irregularities» and an «alleged Russian disinformation operation on social media». End of the story? If only.
Too bad for the scriptwriters that the Romania 2024 Human Rights Report from the U.S. State Department landed — 17 pages of clinical reporting on how to kill democracy with a smile. The Americans write, in black and white, that «independent observers suggested that the social media campaign in question was an organic electoral activity of a Romanian political party».
Translation: no Russia, no Putin, no spy in a fur hat. Just people campaigning for a candidate. The rest? Nonsense. And indeed, the report calls that decision «a political interference in elections and an undue restriction on political speech of an unprecedented nature and gravity».
And so, scapegoat Georgescu vanishes from the ballot, and when the country votes again in May 2025, his political heir George Simion wins the first round. He promises to appoint Georgescu as prime minister. Panic.
At the runoff, everything happens. Don’t take La Voce del Patriota’s word for it — take the OSCE-ODIHR report: «certain key procedures were conducted behind closed doors»; «postal voting packages for both rounds were sent out in advance», allowing people to vote in the second round before the first; preemptive online censorship using creative definitions of «political actor» to delete inconvenient content; imbalances in electoral offices; «markedly unbalanced» media coverage; and thousands of accounts and posts removed without explanation.
In short, a manual on how to slow-cook an election.
The result: the candidate the system likes wins. The one who doesn’t bother Brussels, its bureaucracies, or its self-appointed guardians of «European democracy». Ring a bell? In France, Marine Le Pen barely rises in the polls before the barrage of court cases and investigations begins.
In Germany, the AfD is put under surveillance by the domestic intelligence service — spy-movie stuff, but without the style. In the Netherlands, Austria, and elsewhere, «cordon sanitaire» arrangements and Frankenstein coalitions pop up just to keep the wrong people out. The script is always the same: if you win without the globalist establishment’s seal of approval, your victory doesn’t count.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance, denouncing Europe’s democratic decline, put it like this: «they’re rebuilding a symbolic Berlin Wall». No tanks required — just court rulings, parliamentary committees, and a handful of indignant headlines in the «right» newspapers.
And then we act surprised when the United States removes Romania from the Visa Waiver Program and calls the annulled vote «an affront to democratic principles». The only affront here is to anyone who still believes votes, not vetoes, matter in Europe. Because when the outcome of the ballot box depends on a green light from bureaucrats, that’s no longer democracy — it’s theater. And the play, by now, is always the same. A farce.
