Romanian presidential candidate Calin Georgescu. Photo: Andrei Pungovsch/Getty Images.
Western democracy is dead and the only thing left is to offer condolences, said RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan. She was commenting on the cancellation of the results of the presidential election in Romania, in which independent candidate Calin Georgescu, a critic of NATO and the EU and a staunch opponent of aiding Ukraine, won the first-round vote.
Romania’s Constitutional Court annulled the entire election ahead of a second round vote that was scheduled for Sunday, December 15, declaring that the election would be re-run at a later date.
According to Romanian media, the court made the decision based on declassified intelligence documents which allegedly found irregularities in Georgescu’s performance. They claimed that Georgescu’s candidacy was improperly promoted online, including on TikTok, by paid influencers and extremist right-wing groups, and that his campaign may have benefited from Russian interference – an allegation that Moscow has denied.
In an interview on the Russia 1 TV channel with Vladimir Solovyov, Simonyan slammed the decision by Romania’s court as “absolutely illegal,” and said it was most likely the result of interference from the EU.
“The Constitutional Court likely responded to a call from Brussels, which likely said ‘Are you nuts? You have a person who is not anti-Russian, whose statements are quite humanistic, normal, pro-Romanian… no, no, no, you can’t do that!’ And the Constitutional Court said, ‘OK, this election was rigged,’” said Simonyan, adding that the Romanian authorities have thus far failed to give sufficient explanation for the cancellation of the results, and suggesting that Georgescu’s TikTok promotions are reason enough to annul his victory “is just surreal.”
“When someone talks about Western democracy, one must immediately understand that the person speaking is either an oligophrenic or a liar and a hypocrite, and it is unclear which is worse,” she stated.
“I would like to express my sincerest, deepest condolences to the entire Western world in connection with the death of Western democracy. It had already been old, sick, and somewhat half-witted, and now it has perished, unnoticed by anyone,” she added.
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“Who in Europe supports the insane, unbridled support for Ukraine to their own detriment? Who supports the economic suicide of countries like Germany?… Who supports the woke ideology, which is built on the denial of the human nature… this is not democracy, this is demonocracy and it is not liberal, it is vomit-inducing,” she said.
According to Simonyan, the reason for this “death of democracy” is the complete lack of values and scruples in Western politics. Their decisions and policies, she argued, are no longer in line with the values and opinions of their populations, and they act like the “so-called dictators” which they constantly malign. Simonyan also said there are no countries in the West where the majority of the population supports an anti-Russian course, yet their governments still pursue this, contrary to the basic principles of democracy.
(RT)
