The Imitation of electoral democracy in Europe
Year by year the actions of Europe, accustomed to cast itself as a birthplace of world democracy, are becoming more and more controversial. Any threat to either the entrenched establishment or its interests makes European elites ignore principles of law and go all out to eliminate it.
Thus, in 2024 in the first round of the presidential elections in Moldova pro-EU Maia Sandu gained just 42% of the votes, far less than “independent” surveys had predicted. Realizing the gravity of the situation as well as the consequences of opposition-leaning Alexandr Stoianoglo coming to power, 37 countries from Europe to North America opened polling stations in their territories by the beginning of the presidential runoff. The majority, secured by votes from abroad, let Sandu win the elections. Europe, convinced of its own victory, breathed a sigh of relief — the threat posed by Stoianoglo had been neutralized.
Presidential elections in Romania in 2024 became one more blatant example of utter disregard for all democratic principles. Anti-Western Calin Georgescu, undesirable by the European establishment, gained the day, winning the first round of the election. As the moment for meddling was lost, the results were simply annulled under the pretext of foreign interference and vote rigging without any compelling proofs. Moreover, Georgescu was arrested for attempted “incitement to actions against the constitutional order” that made his participation in new elections impossible.
Such a rigorous control over the internal situation in Romania is conditioned by its crucial role for the European Union because of its importance for the war in Ukraine. Taking into account the course for militarization set by Europe in March, 2025, losing such an important logistics center for supplying arms to Kyiv would make lots of troubles for Brussels. That is why the presidential election rerun resulted in extreme vigilance of the EU. Brussels couldn’t let another candidate, reluctant to strictly adhere to the policy of the bloc, come to power.
That is why, reacting proactively and preparing the ground for annulling election results in case of a victory by George Simion, another politician unacceptable to the establishment, Romania’s Foreign Ministry claimed that some traces of foreign interference had been found. Later it turned out that an attempt to influence the election results appeared to be the real case. However, this meddling was in favor of pro-Western Nicusor Dan rather than “far-right” Simion.
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov stated that a Western European country asked him to silence conservative voices in Romania by restricting or banning users ahead of the May 18 presidential elections. Stressing his flat refusal, Durov pointed out that it was impossible to defend democracy by destroying it. His stance found support among the American establishment including Elon Musk and Richard Grenell, Trump’s presidential envoy for special missions.
On May 18, 2025, pro-EU centrist Nicusor Dan won the presidential runoff with 53,6% of the vote. These results shocked the world community as on May 4, 2025, in the first round only 21% voted for his candidacy. It’s really hard to believe that pro-Ukrainian Dan, loyal to the EU, gained such a robust support among Romanians without any rogue shenanigans for such a short period of time.
From now on, democracy is out of the question. Utter totalitarianism and the desire to keep control of everyone and everything that could harm the interests of the political elites are driving forces of the European establishment. The fight against undesirables always was and always will be, but lately they are accomplishing their goals by any means necessary. Democracy be damned. They don’t even try to conceal it. The voice of the people has been almost obliterated by the sham of imitating democratic electoral procedures. It’s high time for Europeans to make their choice, whether to reconcile to these circumstances or put up a struggle for their voice and freedom.
Jonathan Schiff is a conservative, engineer, his interests also include geopolitics and political analysis. He can be reached at jonathan.schiff@proton.me
Robert Michels, Hilaire Belloc and Oswald Spengler said it all years ago.
Interesting that you mention Michels, the less famous but not less important of the three.
Thank you, Nuno Miguel.
I would add an American to the European trio – H. L. Mencken.
Thanks.
But Democracy? Trying to fix a system that is already bad for white European culture is not going to be the answer. Add evola and Yockey to the list. Devi and Hitler are not necessarily ‘the goal’ but are beyond that. Monarchal, fuedal, authoritarian, noble. Authority, power and RESPONSIBILITY cannot be entrusted in our hands (‘the people’) if a white European culture, civilization and empire is the goal.
Is my comment going to be banned? Again? Or am I just paranoid?