“France and Romania: Should far-right candidates be banned from running for the presidency?”
Other than the Zeepers, I suspect most here agree that voters should be given a CHOICE as to who they vote for.
“Populism is incompatible with our democracy” - discuss.
banning one side from politics? isn’t that a hallmark of tyranny? what about banning the far left? would that fly?
“Excluding candidates from standing in elections... to protect democracy”
In other words, “Democracy is dead”
“And everybody who isn’t us is far-right”
France and Romania, by doing these acts, are not ‘protecting’ democracy by admitting that they don’t believe in democratic principles. Far left means socialist/communist. That means the nations will continue to have government sponsored robbery, less rights, and eventual currency collapse from government print and spend. That results is the nations economy becoming stagnant or third world. Please see Argentina for examples.
Socialism is not the answer, neither is its close brother Fascism. These authoritarian government monstrosities can be recognized by their insatiable appetite for other people’s money, property, and personal rights. Freedom of speech, right to self defense, right to have your vote and have it matter, those are rights that the socialists/fascists cannot allow. Banning ‘far right’ is the sine quo non that your government is no longer a democracy.
No. Next question.
“Should far-right candidates be banned from running for the presidency?”
Only if the Lefty’s think they might win, heh.
Who gets to decide who’s “far right”?
The term “far-right”, so popular in Europe and increasingly here, has no meaning.
The question “should x-type of party be banned from running in an election” is also meaningless in a system that claims legitimacy based on an electoral system.
If sovereignty comes from the people, or at least the electorate, then banning candidates, parties, or political philosophies from participation renders sovereignty meaningless.
It really doesn't like President Truump. See:
Donald Trump's return to office: Ten consequences 28 March 2025The conclusion, in part, to that article: "Trump is not popular in the UK. It so happens that many of the leading Brexiteers are either close to Trump or big fans of his – for example, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and Liz Truss (she voted Remain but behaves like a hard-line Brexiteer). Their argument that, freed from the shackles of the EU, Britain should nestle up close to the US, is losing credibility. Trump has helped Britons and citizens of EU countries to realise that they have much in common. In the UK, public opinion and most political leaders are strongly behind Ukraine, so there has been little opposition to Keir Starmer’s efforts to solidify European support for Kyiv."
And earlier, to the point: "Trump has weakened America, economically and politically."
What IS far right?
Fascists is what they are, the democracy banners.
What a democratic idea.
Nothing says democracy like banning political opponents from running for office because you’re afraid they’ll beat you. How reminiscent of the democrat primaries they had for the presidential election.
/roll eyes
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea bans everybody other than Kim from running and he’s elected with 100% of the vote. Obviously it works great there and they’re still democratic, it say so in the name after all.
Why don’t they just cut to the chase and dispense with elections altogether?
That is what this is.
I remember when we used to say that in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, you could vote for Saddam or you can vote for Saddam.
If these parties have solid popular support among the voters, by what legal basis can they be banned?
If these "far right" candidates were calling for pogroms or otherwise expressed actual extreme views there might be some justification. But you can call for the genocide of the Jews and be a member in good standing of the leftist parties propped up by the media. You can be a tacit and complicit supporter of mass-murdering jihadists as they plow through crowds with their vehicles and rape gangs, and be considered a moderate. These media extremists beclown themselves as they accuse others of being "far" anything.
Thier is NO Right Wing Paryy in Europe. Thier os globalist statist vs anti- Globalist staist.