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  • petrescatraian@libranet.detoPolitics@beehaw.org•Romanian elections megathread
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    11 days ago

    Key takeaways after the election results (it’s 10:28 now and the votes are still counted, but I will edit/update this as necessary):

    1. The Romanian democracy still works! Despite Iohannis, Ciolacu and other influent politicians’ best efforts, despite the intelligence increased inference in the politics, there is still room for surprise. Whether Georgescu was supported by the Romanian intelligence in a bid to get a runoff between Ciolacu and him (to the advantage of the latter) or by the Russian intelligence to get a pro-Russian president in one of the most important Eastern flanc members, that remains to be seen. The thing is that, politically, neither Georgescu nor Lasconi were widely known on a national level before the elections. Georgescu has been previously proposed by AUR as a prime minister while a member of it and Lasconi previously won the City Hall of a small mountain town called Câmpulung Muscel (after this summer, she was now at her 2nd term). But both were pretty much no-namers in the national politics.
    2. Lasconi showed herself unprepared in the debate and it showed. Now she has to prepare herself a lot more than she should have done before if she wants to win the race. I do not think it’s enough for her to pose as the more democratic candidate. Also, any democratic party (or at least that calls itself democratic - looking at your PSD and PNL) should back her and support her with all their power. PSD should give its entire apparatus to her in these elections, or else it has much to lose after these elections. These are the first ever elections after 1989, where none of the established parties made it to the 2nd round. I don’t think however that Lasconi will get unconditional support from them, as she would do in an ideal world. This leads us to…
    3. This will be the first ideological battle for the seat of the president after a long time. I’m not sure if in the 1990s the situation was different, with Iliescu running against Ion Rațiu, or Radu Câmpeanu, or even Emil Constantinescu for that matter. Probably in the 2000s when Iliescu ran against Vadim. But as of late, the discussion shifted a lot towards corruption or administrative related issues. Nonetheless, despite her conservative past, Lasconi called herself Kamala Harris of Romania (which was a bit cringe for me tbh, in this regard), so we will pretty much have a re-run of the US elections on a smaller scale, as Georgescu is an open fan of Ion Antonescu and the legionnaires, and had a court decision of him abusing his wife.
    4. I’m sorry, Andrew, the Matrix did not break today.
  • petrescatraian@libranet.detoFood and Cooking@beehaw.org•Without a fridge/freezer for a while. What should I cook?
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    30 days ago

    @Kit Sorry for being late to this thread. As someone else said, if it’s also getting cold where you live, you can put things outside, in the shade. Here there are 12 degrees Celsius, but in the night it will be 1. Either way, in my country, if there is any vegetable out there we pickle it (we’re mostly doing this with cucumbers, green tomatoes carrots and cabbage, but you’re free to experiment). Here’s a simple recipe for that:

    youtube.com/watch?v=Ql1sCw00Zz…

    You’re basically putting these vegetables into salty water, or in a mix with water and vinegar, along with other stuff. If it’s not that cold, it’s even better, as the vegetables will become pickled faster.

    You can also search for Romanian pickles or reteta muraturi on YouTube (if you’re okay with not understanding the language).

    Another thing that we do is polenta. We usually eat it with cheese and sour cream, but as these require a fridge to keep, you’re free not to use them.

    youtube.com/watch?v=WUmbtQu1eL…

    This video is in Romanian, but the steps seem pretty clear. Here’s what you need:

    • hominy
    • 2 teaspoons of salt
    • water
    • butter/olive oil (optionally, for a more creamy consistency)

    The rest should be self-explainatory.

  • petrescatraian@libranet.deOPtoPolitics@beehaw.org•Presidential elections in Moldova
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    1 month ago

    Update Monday, 11:50 AM local time: Ziarul de Gardă published the map of the preliminary results of the elections.

    There is also an easier to read map on r/Moldova, back on the spez site.

    With the elections coming to a close, international reactions started to flow, most of them congratulating Maia Sandu, with Emmanuel Macron even writing a message in Romanian on X (formerly known as Twitter):

    preview.redd.it/utmakul7otyd1.…

    Translation:

    I would like to congratulate Maia Sandu on her re-election as President of the Republic of Moldova. Democracy has triumphed in the face of all interference and maneuvering. France will continue to stand by Moldova on its European path

    Other leaders who congratulated Maia Sandu were Ursula von der Leyen, Roberta Metsola, as well as the exiled leader of the Belarus opposition, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya.

    As a personal note, I would also like to thank you for following my updates on this thread, as well as the previous one. I thought that there is too little content regarding the Romanian-speaking space here on fedi overall, hence why I decided to take the matter in my own hands. Do you have any feedback to give me on this? Perhaps you’re just as unsatisfied with the federation issues I have as much as I am. Or just write me any other nice stuff that you want 😀

    If so, I created a form below:

    nc.libranet.de/apps/forms/s/2a…