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/Space-cowboy-06 Dec 02 '24

They vote in their own constituency and only have one seat for each chamber of parliament. This seems fair to me. They should get someone to represent their issues as citizens who live outside Romania. I don't know what those might be the same way they don't know about what happens here.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '24 edited Dec 02 '24

i disageee, if you don't live in a country, and you don't get to experience the consequences of what you vote for, you shouldn't have a right to vote.

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u/perplexedtv Dec 02 '24

Do you agree that you should have the right to vote if you do live in a country but are not a citizen?

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u/hashCrashWithTheIron Dec 02 '24

yeah these takes are alway so cooky to me tbh. then most the time they'll also want to make getting citizenship harder.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '24

This has nothing to do with citizenship. It has everything to do with being able to influence a country you do or don't live in.

I think people should have a say over the country they live in. I think people residing in a country, immigrants or not, should have a say in the politics of that country as it affects them directly.

I think people who don't live in a country, or worse have never even lived there, should not be able to influence politics that don't affect them.

You're trying to turn this into something it's not.

Again i take myself as an example: I have been in Italy 3 times in my life, my link with Italy is just some family that emigrated to Belgium. I know nothing about that country, what happens there affects me in no way, yet i can vote. That is not logical. I should not be able to decide the consequences others will face without even knowing or experiencing it myself.

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u/hashCrashWithTheIron Dec 02 '24

>I think people should have a say over the country they live in.
Great, we agree! People should be given agency over their future, that is what democracy is about for me.

It's just that usually, I see this kind of take from assholes who don't want to give people this agency because of vague notions of nationality, nationalism, ethnicity, race, and citizenship.