| From what I've come to understand: - Romania's voting system is in 2 rounds, and he won the first. The second is in ~2 days. - Most people never heard of him up until 2 weeks before the first round, when an aggressive Tiktok campaign started. Polymarket.com didn't include him in their system. Many were taken by surprise. - Many videos promoting him on Tiktok weren't marked as being propaganda, and thus allowed to go viral. - He claims 0 campaign spending and that it's thanks to volunteers. - Many who voted for him aren't into politics, and liked the way he presented himself. - His content is a mix of populist, nationalist, anti-establishment, and mostly contain patriotic and emotional narratives to connect to viewers. - Larger cities voted for the pro-western candidate - He's made some controversial statements, such as the moon landing being fake, covid denying (am not sure to what extent), 5G conspiracy, denying climate change (those being just a few) Everyone's talking about him. I'm curious how it will turn out and to see how the quote "there's no such thing as bad publicity" fares in this case. |