Romunske predsedniške volitve, ki jih je ustavno sodišče razveljavilo pred drugim krogom, so dobile zanimiv preobrat. Obveščevalne službe, ki naj bi zaznale “tuje vmešavanje” (seveda rusko) prek omrežja TikTok, so “spregledale”, da je kampanjo na TikToku plačala vladajoča stranka PNL. Kakor kaže, je kandidat PNL Nicolae Ciucă v predvolilnih anketah močno izgubljal, nakar je vladajoča stranka PNL plačala TikTok kampanjo za “no name” kandidata Calina Georgescuja, da bi škodovala “ne njihovi” vodilni kandidatki Eleni Lasconi. Georgescu pa je nato presenetljivo zmagal v prvem krogu volitev (kandidat PNL Ciucă je bil šele peti), nakar je nastala še večja panika v vladajočih krogih in ustavno sodišče je na podlagi zbranih informacij obveščevalnih služb razveljavilo celotne voliitve.

Bilo bi bizarno, če ne bi razgalilo, kako močne so sile, ki poskušajo preprečiti, da ni na oblast prišli politiki, ki ne podpirajo uradne ameriške narative glede vojne v Ukrajini in odnosov z Rusijo. Težko je reči, da še živimo v demokraciji. Bolj spominja na “lov na čarovnice” iz časa McCarthyja in Informbiroja. Hladna vojna je dosegla nov vrhunec.

Romania’s tax agency ANAF has found that the TikTok campaign of Calin Georgescu, the winner of the cancelled first round of the Romanian presidential election, was not paid for by the Russians, as Romanian intelligence claimed (which was the formal reason for the cancellation of the first round results), but by the pro-European National Liberal Party of Romania.

According to it, the tax agency found that Georgescu’s social media campaign was paid for by the National Liberals, whose goal was to draw voters away from their rivals, the Social Democrats.

Following inquiries from the investigative website Snoop, the firm Kensington hired by the Liberals admitted that the campaign was paid for by the NLP, but claims that it was part of a larger campaign carried out “at the behest of the National Liberal Party, to raise public awareness.”

Thus, if the information is officially confirmed, the main argument on the basis of which the results of the first round of the presidential elections in Romania were cancelled will disappear.

The candidate of the National Liberal Party, Nicolae Ciuca, took 5th place in the elections.

This was reported by the Romanian publication HotNews.

Vir: Lord Bebo via X

Še dodatna analiza na to temo:

A new report from investigative outlet http://snoop.ro (https://snoop.ro/anaf-a-descoperit-ca-pnl-a-platit-o-campanie-care-l-a-promovat-masiv-pe-calin-georgescu-pe-tiktok/) reveals that the TikTok campaign which was cited in the declassified Romanian intelligence documents as evidence of foreign interference – and used as grounds to cancel the presidential election – was actually paid for by the ruling National Liberal Party (PNL), the very party that supported cancelling the elections!

According to the investigation, the campaign called “#EchilibrușiVerticalitate” that the intelligence services claimed was “identical to Russian operations in Ukraine” was organized by a marketing firm called Kensington Communication, hired by PNL (the ruling party), who paid Kensington over 1 million RON for it (about $210,000). Kensington then used a platform called FameUp to coordinate 130 influencers with specific scripts and messaging guidelines.

This puts the declassified intelligence documents in an entirely new light. What they presented as evidence of foreign interference was actually a campaign paid for by the ruling party. The same party that then supported using these allegations of “foreign interference” to cancel an election they were losing.

Even more bizarrely, confronted by journalists, Kensington Communication initially denied using the hashtag but later admitted to creating the campaign for PNL, claiming it was meant to be called “#echilibrusiseriozitate” and was changed to “#echilibrusiverticalitate” without their knowledge. Yeah, right…

This means that either the Romanian intelligence services didn’t know this was a PNL-funded campaign when they used it as evidence to cancel the election (which raises huge questions about their competence), or they did know and didn’t disclose it (which raises even bigger questions about their integrity).

In any case, it seems to indicate that something extremely sinister happened in Romania: a ruling party used intelligence services to cancel an election based on “foreign interference” evidence that they themselves paid for!

Vir: Arnaud Betrand via X

Še več informacij o obtožbah in odzivu TikTok omrežja na obtožbe pa najdete v tem spodnjem zapisu v The Conversation.