Pro-Western candidate Nicusor Dan has unexpectedly beaten hard-right populist George Simion in the Romanian election.
Mr Simion, 38, and his rival - a centrist who’s mayor of Bucharest - faced off in the second round of the contest.
According to the official tally, Mr Dan was leading by nearly nine percentage points with more than 98% of the votes counted.
They aren’t enough votes remaining for Mr Simion to make a comeback.
Here in Australia the supposed “MAGA style populism” lost because they were the complete opposite of that. They were offering basically nothing different to the current left wing government. They would have likely won had they actually been an opposition and campaigned on and promised what the Republicans did.
Huh? What nonsense. The LNP started falling in the polls right when Trump got into office and started destroying America. They tried a few Trumpian policies and were forced to backflip because of how unpopular it made them.
Dutton’s attempt to replicate Trump was roundly rejected by Australians. And rightly so.
No, Dutton did no such thing. He kept flip flopping between just copying labor’s policies and opposing them. His refusal to deal with our insanely high and unsustainable immigration showed that they are not at all “MAGA-like”. Did trump campaign on keeping immigration at near record levels?
Jesus mate, you keep telling yourself that. Your extremist Sky After Dark rhetoric is going to keep the libs out of power for a decade.
I’m fine with the LNP being out of power for a decade. They are trash. They’re Labor-lite. I’ve literally never voted for them.