Foreign Digest: Romania, Venezuela, Philippines, Brazil, Germany, Austria and Russia

Romania: United States Vice President JD Vance, a Trumpist Republican, recently criticized Romania for overturning its presidential election in December, but the election results, in which an unknown independent candidate who did not spend any money came in first, was tainted by significant Russian interference on behalf of the pro-Russian anti-migrant neo-Nazi party. Therefore, a new election will be held in May.Foreign interference renders an election fraudulent, like that of Donald Trump in 2016 and again in 2020, whose election was heavily backed by Russia. Vance baselessly claims the 2020 election, which Trump lost, was fraudulent, but now contradicts himself in expecting Romania to accept election fraud. His only consistency is backing pro-Russian candidates. As I have posted, three center-right parties, which formed a government with the ruling center-left after parliamentary elections in the meantime, will jointly support a candidate. A center-right candidate had come in second in the overturned election. The far-right candidate was charged last week with multiple election violations. Romania is an ally of the United States as a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Venezuela: The Carter Center, which sent observers to Venezuela for its presidential election in July, has determined that the center-right opposition candidate, former diplomat Edmundo Gonzales Urrutia, was the winner of the election. The Carter Center again noted the fraud committed by the Socialist dictatorship on behalf of the President who was seeking reelection. The Socialist have ruled the South American State for 25 years after being elected and then becoming increasingly authoritarian. Venezuela is becoming increasingly aggressive against Guyana, most of whose territory it claims, despite international rulings in favor of Guyana that Venezuela had previously recognized. Philippines: The Vice President of the Philippines was impeached late last month for threatening to assassinate the President. She is the daughter of former President Rodrigo Duterte, the “Filipino Trump,” who backed the presidential candidate with her on the ticket, instead of trying to seek another term. The Philippines, a key ally of the U.S. versus Communist China, hosts bases it allows the American military to use. Brazil: The far-right populist former Brazilian President was charged last week with attempting a coup. The Trump-like former President was already barred from office for five years for corruption. Germany: The conservative bloc of parties won the most votes and seats in the German Parliamentary elections last week, defeating the ruling center-left bloc and the far-right, but well short of a majority. The center-right Christian Democratic Union and their conservative Bavarian allies will have to form a coalition with the center-left party of the outgoing Chancellor. Russian interference on behalf of the pro-Russian anti-migrant far-right neo-Nazi party, which also benefitted from support by Vance and Elon Musk, as I had posted about last month. Austria: Three centrist parties, including the main center-right party, the main center-left party and a centrist party, have agreed to form a coalition government, keeping out the anti-European pro-Russian extreme right party that had won the most votes and seats in the parliamentary elections five months ago, as I had posted. The coalition will be led by a chancellor of the center-right party. Russia: There was a protest by the Russian opposition based in Germany. Basic freedoms are not tolerated by Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin, the ex-Soviet intelligence officer who came to power 25 years ago and became increasingly authoritarian. The opposition have either been murdered, imprisoned or driven into exile.