The Church Lady would have had her doubts about the recent Romanian election.

According to The Spectator, two 'right-wing' candidates were banned from running and, surprise-surprise, the EU preferred candidate won.

[https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/democracy-dies-in-romania/?status=Active&utm_medium=email&utm_source=CampaignMonitor_Editorial&utm_campaign=LNCH%20%2020250519%20%20House%20Ads%20%20SM+CID_bbfa3f2934181bcfc9e8319fab1a3e71]

A tactic straight out of Putin's playbook according to the way the West portrays Russian elections.

As The Spectator says:

The hypocrisy is truly off the scale. The man who should be Romanian president now, if genuine democracy had been allowed to run its course, is Calin Georgescu. He was the winner of the first round of the original presidential elections and looked to be in a good position to win the second round too. 

Of course Russian interference, via Tik-Tok, was blamed for the banning of the original likely winner and preventing him from leaving the country.

Now if you’re going to take the drastic step of cancelling an election 48 hours before it is going to be held, you better have cast-iron evidence and make that cast-iron evidence public. But that hasn’t been done. ‘Authorities still haven’t provided any concrete evidence of Russian interference in the election, frustrating many Romanians’, admitted Rowan Ings of the BBC’s Global Disinformation Unit on 25April.

It is a mystery to FNN exactly how a social media site famous for short videos of cavorting nudes is where people go for political advice - even in Romania. Why anyone would pay any attention to Tik-Tok's expert 'advice' seems ludicrous and why would Russia bother using Tik-Tok in this way?

Even US VP J D Vance wasn't happy about this election as a beacon of democracy.

It looks like the EU got the result it wanted and 'democratic values' prevailed but democracy took another hit as Romanian voters were deprived of a fair election.