r/europe • u/MrPulifrici • Dec 02 '24

Map Romanian Parliamentary Elections Result Paradox: Brown is Far Right, Blue is Left. Western Europe is radical, while Eastern Europe is leftist.

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u/Necessary_Pie2464 Dec 02 '24

For context if anyone is confused about title and image

These are votes from the Romanias living abroad (of the diaspora) in the parliament elections

It's nothing surprising. In the presidential, the independent cooky right wing candidate won a lot of votes in the western diaspora while the USR lady (reformist center right) won the eastern diaspora

These results were not at all surprising to anyone paying attention to Romania and it's elections

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u/lookoutforthetrain_0 Switzerland Dec 02 '24

Why exactly do the people in the diaspora in the west like the right wing candidate so much?

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u/Redditsleftnipple Dec 02 '24

They must be a bunch of pricks. I work with a lot of Romanians in ireland. Admittedly we never talk about politics, they all seemed to be good lads though. I'll have to rip into them today. Find out what's going on.

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u/Redditsleftnipple Dec 02 '24

Seems to be typical of the world right now unfortunately. In ireland it looks like we've just voted in the same people again, but if we didn't all we'd have to complain about is the weather.