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En Roumanie, George Simion, le candidat de l’extrême droite, largement en tête du premier tour de la présidentielle
Le chef du parti nationaliste l’Alliance pour l’unité des Roumains devance deux candidats pro-européens.
Celui qui se revendique comme le successeur du vainqueur déchu Calin Georgescu remporte le premier tour avec 40 % des voix, suivi par le maire centriste de Bucarest Nicusor Dan (20,9%), qui a dépassé de peu le candidat unique des partis au pouvoir, Crin Antonescu (20,3%).
« Ensemble nous avons écrit une page d’histoire aujourd’hui », a réagi le vainqueur dans un message vidéo diffusé au siège de son parti devant des partisans chantant « Dehors les voleurs, vive les patriotes ».
Battu au second tour ?
Cet eurosceptique fan de Donald Trump devra transformer l’essai lors du second tour le 18 mai, où il affrontera donc Nicusor Dan.
Il sera « probablement battu au second tour » le 18 mai car il dispose de peu de réserves de voix, a commenté pour l’AFP le professeur de sciences politiques Sergiu Miscoiu, prédisant une course serrée. Mais d’autres experts pointent les fractures du pôle pro-européen après une campagne marquée par de virulentes accusations et des coups bas.
Onze prétendants au total briguaient un poste essentiellement protocolaire mais influent en politique étrangère, dans ce pays membre de l’UE de 19 millions d’habitants devenu un pilier essentiel de l’Otan depuis l’invasion russe de l’Ukraine voisine.
« Président MAGA »
La victoire surprise en novembre de Calin Georgescu, un ancien haut fonctionnaire accusé par ses détracteurs d’être favorable au Kremlin, avait inquiété dans l’ouest du continent et plongé la Roumanie dans la tourmente politique. Lire la suite »
‘MAGA heads on fire’: Biden declares gender equality constitutional amendment ‘the law of the land’
President Biden has just commuted the sentences of over 2,000 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses. Biden cementing his legacy with a series of executive actions and much more–including declaring the Equal Rights Amendment ‘the law of the land’–in his final hours as president is discussed by Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA)
Biden warns voters a second Trump presidency will threaten democracy
Faced with stagnant approval ratings, president ups ante in what may become a central theme of his re-election campaign
Joe Biden dramatically raised the ante in the forthcoming US presidential election campaign on Thursday with a stark and impassioned warning that American democracy is imperiled by a vengeful Donald Trump, his likely opponent next year.
Faced by stagnant approval ratings and worries about his advanced age, the US president attempted to stir his dormant supporters and animate the undecided by spelling out the dangers he insisted a second Trump presidency would pose to the US’s status as the world’s leading beacon of democratic government.
Declaring US history at “an inflexion point”, Biden, 80, said the country’s character and future was threatened by the authoritarian values of Trump’s self-styled Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement.
“There is something dangerous happening in America,” he told an audience in Phoenix, Arizona. “There is an extremist movement that does not share the basic beliefs of our democracy: the MAGA movement … History has brought us to a new time of testing.
“All of us are being asked right now: What will we do to maintain our democracy?”
His voice at times falling to little more than a whisper to stress his message, Biden invoked the late John McCain, a former Republican senator with whom he had a close relationship, to emphasize what he said were the selfless virtues of democracy.
He was forced to pause early in his speech when a heckler interrupted to demand why he had not declared a climate emergency, according to reporters in the auditorium.
“If you shush up, I will meet with you immediately after this, OK?” the president responded. He then added pointedly: “Democracy never is easy – as you just demonstrated.”
Referring to Trump by name just once in his half-hour speech, Biden nevertheless set out to contrast democratic norms and traditions with conduct that appeared to characterize his predecessor.
Democracy, he said, “means rule of the people, not rule of the monarchy, not rule of money, not rule of the mighty.
“Regardless of party, that means free and fair elections, respecting the outcome, win or lose. It means you cannot love your country only when you win.
“Democracy means rejecting and repudiating political violence. Regardless of party, such violence is never, never, never acceptable in America. It’s undemocratic and it must never be normalized to gain political power.”
The last comments were an apparent reference to the attack on Capitol Hill on January 6 when a Trump-inspired mob tried to stop the ratification of Biden’s presidential election victory by the US congress.
Despite Trump’s failure to overturn the 2020 election result, Biden warned that the danger had not passed. “Today, democracy is still at risk. This is not hyperbole. It’s a simple truth,” he said. Lire la suite »
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