President Nicusor Dan said that Romanian authorities finally have solid proof of Russian involvement in Romania’s cancelled 2024 presidential elections. He also estimated that far-right candidate Călin Georgescu benefited from EUR 20 million in dark money.
Dan argued that authorities did not have proof that Russia interfered through advertising in the electoral campaign until the Prosecutor’s Office report. The latter showed that accounts and companies from Russia were used in the disinformation process.
“We now have proof of the fact that there were several sites that acted so that their advertising would reach a large number of people. Accounts and companies from Russia were used in this disinformation process, and I will inform our partners,” the president also said, cited by News.ro.
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Aside from online disinformation, the president estimated that Călin Georgescu’s electoral campaign could have benefited from funding worth EUR 20 million, although prosecutors have data regarding EUR 1 million paid by businessman Bogdan Peschir. Officially, Georgescu’s campaign had declared zero funding for the 2024 presidential campaign.
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Nicusor Dan said he will inform EU partners of the proof of Russian involvement in Romania’s cancelled 2024 presidential elections during the informal meeting of EU leaders in Copenhagen on Wednesday, October 1.
EU and Western allies are also more aware of these destabilizing attempts coming from Moscow, according to the Romanian official. “Russia is waging a hybrid war in Europe, including in Romania, to install friendly governments or amplify fears,” Dan argued.
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As Russias neigbours neighbours neighbour I can confirm
As russia’s neighbor I can confirm.
This is exactly what they did for trump.
our right-wing owned media conglomerates chose to ignore it completely.
This is exactly what they did for trump.
And they did this for the previous mexican president, suddenly we had RT ads around the city (mostly inside the metro), their bots defending and boosting Trump, he was bent on buying the vaccine sputnik and forcing it on people (even after expired [nowadays they are forcing the abdala vaccine and refuse to buy any other one, yes, also applying the expired ones]) and he was constantly talking about how he should do the peace talks or act as a mediator between Ukraine and Putin but implying the bullshit about them giving up some territory.
And you can still find sooooooooo many of their bots on mexican social media, reddit even has mods on r/mexico that work along with them
We need to look at our Eastern European neighbours for hints on how to deal with the continuing hybrid threat coming from Russia. Well, not all of them, but surely the Baltics, largely Poland, Ukraine of course, Romania & Moldova…
But clearly that didn’t happen in the US. Trump clearly actually won despite an insurrection, felony charges, divisive rhetoric, empty rallies, you name it. He definitely won fair and square.
great now look for nato & eu interference :DDDD
