[debugnik]

Won the election here means 22.94% of the vote, not long after having polled at 5%. He didn't even have a party.

This person went really quickly from unknown to anyone not into politics, to incredibly popular within a targeted media bubble and still unknown to anyone unfamiliar with that bubble.

[terminalshort]

When that "bubble" is at minimum one quarter of the country, maybe you need to reconsider who is in the bubble here.

[tpm]

it's not "at minimum one quarter of the country", the turnout was 52.56% of registered voters, so its at minimum 22.94% of 52.56% of 18 million, which is 11% of the total population of Romania.