Bulgaria requests EU support to fend off election meddling in April vote
https://www.politico.eu/article/bulgaria-turns-to-eu-to-fend-off-election-meddling/
Posted by PjeterPannos
Bulgaria requests EU support to fend off election meddling in April vote
https://www.politico.eu/article/bulgaria-turns-to-eu-to-fend-off-election-meddling/
Posted by PjeterPannos
14 Comments
Based Bulgaria, best of luck to yall.
Fuck wish Hungary did this
Yawn. What is the EU going to do? Bump PPDB neoliberals that are basically unelectable outside of the big three cities and sit at 12-14% every damn time. Support for the n-th time the GERB mafiosos which has been in power for 15+ years and completely support the EU in everything as long as they give them money(which they steal and give the EU a quite bad image) and sits comfy at 20+%. Send a strong letter of disapproval to the former president Radev (the new political unicorn and “”saviour”” with ~30%) that is Neutral-Russian-American “I sit on two chairs” type a guy which is in fact more on the Russian side. Or maybe criticise Vazrazhdane, who are the same as PPDB in unelectability with 13-15% and as a party is basically Russia-lite and “we wuz Bulgarians and shiet, F the EU” nationalists or maybe they will try something new with BSP commies and other bunch of crazies?
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We should absolutely support our European neighbour in this endeavour
Bulgaria calls for aid!
Hungary needs it too.
The situation is pretty dire.
In the last month or so the police busted over 200 voter buying organisations, got a databank holding copies of over a thousand ID cards and confiscated €500,000 Euros in bribe money.
At this point the national authorities are being overwhelmed. Someone put a lot of money into swinging the elections.
This is how you do it, good luck
EU can’t even fight election meddling on their own backyard, sadly. Far right will win the next German election.
There is absolutely no shame in asking for help from your EU partners. Kudos to Bulgaria for trying to keep the elections fair and transparent and not being too proud to ask for help.
You don’t need to hack the the ballot if you can shape the narrative
The current political campaign has been pretty mild tbh in comparison to previous ones. I don’t know exactly why, probably will pick up in the last days before the actual election, come to think about it, haven’t seen a single online ad, even legit ones. Or maybe I have trained myself to zone this crap out 😂
There have been many crackdowns on ppl selling and buying votes. Vote buying has been kinda normal around here, we have scandals around it practically every election, but that local, not external.
The vibes I am getting, alot of ppl want the temporary government to stay in power.
This is what EU funds and mechanisms are made for, I have no issue with this.
Free and Fair elections are the basis of everything.