Well, Călin Georgescu was forbidden from participating in the 2025 elections despite winning the first round, and Nicușor Dan ended up being the romanian president.
Moldova successively banned the Șor Party in June 2023, the Chance Party in November 2023, the Victory Bloc in 2024, and the Heart of Moldova in September 2025, but as for Ecuador you’ll never hear about that !
« the pro-Russian Patriotic Electoral Bloc has 26.6%. The Russia-friendly Alternativa Bloc stood at 8.6% and the populist Our Party — which wants “balanced foreign policy” between East and West — has 6.3% », they also banned 18 Russian-language television channels and over 60 internet resources, and restricted access to opposition politicians’ channels on social media and internet platforms, while pro-western media operate in Moldova without restrictions to manipulate the votes.
Hungary is under sanctions.
Ukraine overthrew Yanukovych with the help of the west, and already started after 2004 to “promote the ukrainian language” by enforcing subtitles, imposing ukrainian in the administration(, reverted in 2012 with Yanukovych), having more and more conflicts with Russia, promoting Stepan Bandera and others, they also launched a witch hunt against their anti-e.u. opponents(, e.g. Borys Kolesnykov). In Moldova, Ilan Shor and others were also attacked before 2014 under what may have been false pretenses.
In Estonia, they went even further by banning 6.1% of their population from voting.
In Latvia, the Harmony party was the main force of opposition but has now virtually disappeared after 2022, even if their leader Nils Ušakovs was already accused of corruption in 2019. And many diverse things against pro-russians
In Bulgaria, they tried to ban the Vazrazhdane party but ended up failing, so it’s now the third political party of the country.
It is good to know that with the Magnitsky Act, the u.s. can just ban pro-russian political candidates from participating. They sanctioned Delyan Peevski and Vasil Bozhkov in 2021, as well as Vladislav Goranov in 2023.
The Magnitsky act was used in other countries of the eastern bloc as well : Aleksandar Vulin in Serbia in 2023, Milorad Dodik in Bosnia from 2022 to 2024, Antal Rogán in Hungary in 2025, Vakhtang Gomelaur in Georgia in 2024, …
We’ll only hear about, e.g., Georgia or Hungary, or other opponents, exaggerating their misdeeds while ignoring ours
Pro-Russia Narek Karapetyan in Armenia as well
In New Caledonia, France just closed 48 polling stations out of 56, greatly complicating the votes for the poorest part of the population(, usually pro-independence). I’m from France and that’s one more thing not known.
Yeah, watch as we(sterners) stay silent about the new bolivian dictatorship under Rodrigo Paz, as he governs through decrees and makes ineligible 80% of the candidates(, 26.000 out of 34.000, with almost no substitution), something unseen under the MAS, who didn’t even need a second turn to win the 2020 elections, and would have won in 2025 as well without a suspicious(, fearful of the US ?,) betrayal of Luis Arce. Their victory in these subnational elections was assured, especially following the recent mass protests against Rodrigo Paz.
This article doesn’t mention the mass invalidation and its causes, nor that they put Luis Arce in jail and are trying to do the same for Evo Morales.
That’s what happens once you allow the rent-seekers to take power(, Étienne Chouard has a better solution to be safeguarded from abuses of power), and what will happen to Venezuela as well(, at least Venezuela’s constitution has the art.72 along with its participatory democracy, even if it didn’t protect them from sanctions), with a complicit silence of the capitalist-owned press, who’d have immediately denounced it if Evo Morales ever did something similar, and there will obviously not be any sanction, bombing, or western-backed coup in order to restore democracy and liberty.
And it’s not only in Bolivia.
So, what’s their alternative then, armed struggle ? They should just give up on their lives and sacrifice it in order to attempt taking back control ?
Rodrigo “Paz” banned their medias, and now they can’t even participate in a biased election, let us applaud.
It’s still a defeat compared to the past, but i feared worse(, even if the MAS is indeed destroyed) https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elecciones_subnacionales_de_Bolivia_de_2026
I unfortunately expect more manipulations from him in regard to his first 6 months, in order to avoid a defeat in 2030. There should be the possibility of a citizen-initiated recall referendum in every country, and no-one should ever govern through decrees…
And i maintain that if he was honest then he should have been more lenient by only invalidating at most 10% of the worst candidacies, as a progressive warning for the future, the lack of information never posed a problem in the past(, e.g. instead of banning Andrónico Rodríguez and other deputies from participating because they were in La Paz they could have had the same exception as usual).