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🇦🇱🇹🇷 Did you know that the founder of the Galatasaray Football Club was an Albanian-Turkish?

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🇷🇴 Who do you think is going to win today's elections in Romania?
Anonymous Poll
79%
George Simion
21%
Nicusor Dan
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🇭🇷 Today, croatia celebrates the first round of local and regional elections.
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A Western European government (guess which 🥖) approached Telegram, asking us to silence conservative voices in Romania ahead of today’s presidential elections. I flatly refused. Telegram will not restrict the freedoms of Romanian users or block their political channels.

You can’t “defend democracy” by destroying democracy. You can’t “fight election interference” by interfering with elections. You either have freedom of speech and fair elections — or you don’t. And the Romanian people deserve both. 🇷🇴
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How about we just respect Romanian democracy and let them vote for RW candidates?
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Media is too big
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🇷🇴 George Simion send a message while getting a haircut.
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🇫🇷❌📱 The French MFA denies the claims made by Telegram founder, Pavel Durov, of pressuring the app to silence Romanian conservatives using the app.

The MFA calls the claims "unfounded" and calls on "everyone" to "respect Romanian democracy".

They reiterate Romania had the "legal" right to cancel its own elections last year because there was "very real digital and financial interference from actors linked to Russia".

They mention the "investigation" of Romanian and EU authorities which showed a "manipulation" of TikTok's algorithms.

Lastly, the French MFA accuses the people spreading the "unfounded claims" of Telegram CEO, Pavel Durov, of "diversionary tactics", of wanting to draw away attention from "real threats of interference".

The French MFA reiterates France's support for Romania during the negotiations for EU membership, for "reforms" and for "strengthening" Romanian borders with troop deployments after the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian war.

The French MFA calls on all Romanian political actors to "defend democracy" and say that those who say the contrary are "insulting" the French nation.

@Wallachian_Gazette
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🇷🇴🗳⚡️ #BREAKING | Spokesman of the Romanian MFA, Andrei Țărnea, says ”hallmarks of Russian interference” were noticed in the 2nd round of the presidential elections!

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🇷🇴🗳⚡️ 94.9% counted and the gap between Nicușor Dan and George Simion has grown to over 810k votes.

So far no reaction from the AUR HQ and George Simion after he declared himself winner (Mircea Geoană's curse), no admission of defeat yet.

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🇷🇴🗳⚡️ Mass celebrations in Bucharest for Nicușor Dan.

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🇷🇴🇫🇷⚡️- Telegram CEO Pavel Durov confirms that the French domestic intelligence chief is who asked him to ban conservative voices and supporters of George Simion.
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🇷🇴🗳⚡️ 98.7% counted and the gap between Nicușor Dan and George Simion shrank slightly, falling to 898k votes.

However right now there are less than 800k votes to be counted meaning that it is impossible for George Simion to recover the ground lost to Nicușor Dan.

Simion still hasn't admitted defeat and word goes around that he is thinking of launching mass demonstrations tomorrow in major cities across Romania.

@Wallachian_Gazette
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🇪🇺🤝🇷🇴 President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, congratulated Nicușor Dan on his victory. — AFP

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