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Washington Post
26-05-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
Romania's new president is sworn in as a political crisis eases, but challenges loom
BUCHAREST, Romania — Romania's newly elected president Nicusor Dan was officially sworn in on Monday, ushering in a tentative close to the worst political crisis to grip the European Union country in decades after the annulment of the previous election. But multiple challenges lie ahead. Dan, a 55-year-old mathematician and former mayor of the capital, Bucharest, decisively won the tense rerun in a runoff on May 18, beating his hard-right opponent George Simion, who later challenged the results at a top court, but was rejected last week.
Times
21-05-2025
- Politics
- Times
How Russia is using Gaelic and AI to peddle disinformation in Scotland
There is a lie being told about Anas Sarwar on the internet. The Scottish Labour leader, the story goes, is plotting for Pakistani Muslims to take power so they can 'dictate' what is taught in schools. One right-wing influencer, the former actor Laurence Fox, shared an old video of the Glasgow politician talking, rather uncontroversially, about greater south Asian participation in elected politics. Fox posted: 'Sharia law is coming.' Scottish Labour dismissed a series of accusations about Sarwar on social media. 'This is an attempt by individuals with a hard-right agenda to use dog whistles to poison our politics,' a spokesman for the party leader said. It is not only individuals, however, pushing the Sarwar video. It is also the Kremlin. And it is doing
Washington Post
19-05-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
Portugal headed for another minority government after vote won by incumbent center-right party
LISBON, Portugal — Portugal was headed for yet another minority government after the incumbent center-right Democratic Alliance won a general election but failed to secure a majority in Parliament in a vote that saw surge by a hard-right populist party. Democratic Alliance leader Luis Montenegro, the incumbent prime minister, said he was willing to discuss solutions with other parties.
Times
16-05-2025
- Politics
- Times
‘I'm no barbarian at the gates' … the Romanian populist on path to power
At the top of the escalator next to the European Parliament's forum bar, George Simion is met by an Italian eurosceptic who is one of Giorgia Meloni's protégés. There are selfies and pleasantries exchanged in Italian. Then the Romanian is mobbed by a group of young Spanish women, members of the hard-right Vox party who rush to pose with the emerging star of European populism. There's no break for Simion as he's then greeted by Matthieu Valet, 39, one of Marine Le Pen's rising stars in her National Rally. The two men embrace. 'We both have the same problem,' Simion tells the French MEP who is a member of Le Pen's Patriots for Europe group in Brussels, which includes the Hungarian leader, Viktor Orban.
