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Re:Romania cancels election after systems targeted in cybera... by 4ad on Friday December 06, 2024 @01:04PM (#42342306)
The candidate seems to be more of a communist than anything[1], he wants 51% state control of all large corporations operating in Romania. Labelling him as right-wing is asinine. Actual communist parties are supporting him.

Perhaps if people wouldn't demonise any anti-globalist public figure as "far right" we wouldn't have ended with this clown of a candidate. People haven't voted for him as a person, he was totally unknown as of a couple of weeks ago, they've voted against the status quo, and more importantly they voted against the establishment that regulates what constitutes acceptable opinion.

[1] https://calingeorgescu.ro/program

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Re:Romania cancels election after systems targeted in cybera... by kioku on Friday December 06, 2024 @06:30PM (#42345727)
In the page that you linked, it states that he wants to implement a measure that enforces minimum 51% participation by the state in all natural resource exploitation activities on Romanian territory.

While this can be viewed as a left-wing policy, it can also be a form of economic nationalism.

As far as I understand, he gets classified as far right [1], because of his ultranationalist and ultraconservative views.

The parties that declared support for him [2][3][4], after the first election round, have similar views.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-right_politics

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AUR_Alliance

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_of_Young_People

[4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.O.S._Romania

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