🇲🇩🗳🇪🇺 One more thing that needs to be said about the referendum on joining the European Union:

The pro-Russian side sabotaged itself. Some parties including PSRM who came 2nd and PDCM told their supporters to boycott the referendum and not vote.

Our Party (PN) who came 3rd, didn't pronounce itself on the referendum leaving its supporters to vote or not as they feel like.

Only the communists and Ilan Shor's people urged their supporters to vote against joining the EU. If PSRM and PDCM and PN had told their supporters to reject the referendum, it would have been rejected.

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🇦🇱🇷🇸 Albania and Serbia signed a MoC in tourism as part of the Open Balkan initiative

The agreement focuses on boosting tourism between the two countries and fostering joint projects in the sector.

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🇷🇴🗳⚡️ The Constitutional Court and a slew of politicians in and outside of Romania, including many top EU officials have rallied behind the Constitutional Court's decision and accused Călin Georgescu that he manipulated people on TikTok and got more popular than he deserved.

Data shows that it is simply not true.

Data collected by the Expert Forum NGO who was one of the first and loudest accusers of ”digital manipulation” shows that Călin Georgescu came in 4th in terms of views on TikTok.

The first one was George Simion, who placed 4th in the presidential elections. He had a combined 396 million views on TikTok.

Second was Marcel Ciolacu who came third with 328 million views. The fact that Ciolacu was beaten by PSD despite having the entire political apparatus of PSD and immense administrative resources is pathetic.

After him, Elena Lasconi who came 2nd. She had 202 million views on TikTok.

Then there is Călin Georgescu himself with 145 million views and he got 1st place.

All of these views are calculated in the timeframe of January-November 2024.

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🇷🇴🗳⚡️ AUR is currently collecting signatures on alegerilibere.ro for a petition to be sent to the Venice Commission, the OSCE, the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights in Warsaw and the Group of States Against Corruption (GRECO) to condemn the decision of the Constitutional Court of Romania and more closely monitor the democratic process in Romania.

Over 750k signatures were collected in two days. AUR hopes to reach 1 million signatures soon.

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🟦🗳⚡️ Journalists uncovered that some 130 TikTok influencers, who were accused of taking Russian money to promote Călin Georgescu to their audiences, were actually paid by the National Liberal Party!

They promoted a hashtag, #EchilibrușiVerticalitate which was named in one of the reports declassified by the Supreme National Defense Council, to be ”akin to the TikTok campaign ”Brother for Brother” which was promoted by Russia prior to invading Ukraine.

The influencers promoted these two qualities, ”equilibrium (balance)” and ”verticality” as the ”right ones” for a Romanian president, and answered ”Călin Georgescu” to users leaving comments asking who are they referring to.

The investigation revealed the firm paying them gave them guidelines on how to make TikTok posts promoting this ”candidate” and how to avoid TikTok's safeguards for political content, which the influencers respected.

However, when analysing the posts with the guidelines, journalists noticed that the hashtags used were different but similar at the same time. Rather than using #EchilibrușiSeriozitate as was instructed, the influencers changed it to #EchilibrușiVerticalitate.

PNL paid the firm who managed those 130 influencers and didn't complain, didn't tell anyone that their hashtags were changed. Responding to journalists the marketing firm said the campaign was meant to get people to vote in general, not for someone specifically, but didn't answer questions if they knew that their instructions were deliberately disregarded.

📝: The only theory that makes sense in light of these finds is that PNL tried to set up PSD to fail after the Constitutional Court booted Diana Șoșoacă off the president candidate list, which many believed led to a scenario Marcel Ciolacu vs George Simion and liberals would have been ”forced” to vote for Ciolacu instead of Simion because a liberal will never pick a nationalist. In other words, PNL or someone within PNL may have propped up Călin Georgescu to take revenge on PSD.

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