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[โ€“] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Surprised and disappointed by Slovakia, Slovenia, Moldova and Bulgaria.

Not surprised but disappointed by Serbia, Hungary, and Russia.

[โ€“] oce@jlai.lu 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Moldova had elections a few days ago.
Yes to the EU process vs Russia influence barely won with 50.46% and the current pro-EU president was reelected with 54.35% against a candidate supported by the "pro-Russian Socialist Party".
So apparently, democracy is not a consensual topic in this country, which aligns well with Trump.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/moldovas-eu-referendum-goes-wire-after-sandu-decries-vote-meddling-2024-10-21/
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/moldova-holds-presidential-runoff-election-amid-claims-russian-meddling-2024-11-03/

I mean I followed those. But both of them had lots of russian interference so I take the result with grain of salt.

Luckily pro-EU won in both.

[โ€“] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Slovakia has a far right president too. So not too much of a surprise. Melania Trump is Slovenian, so that might be it. Bulgarian politics is just nuts.

[โ€“] Mihies@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

While Melania is from Slovenia, I don't think she has a huge fan base over here.

Makes sense but the people I met in rural Slovakia all seemed to hate putin so much so it really suprised me the election results and now this.

[โ€“] khannie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Honestly surprised that 16% of Irish voters would go trump but 84% Harris is pretty solid.

[โ€“] Mihies@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

As Slovene I agree. #wtf