YOUTUBER WINS EU ELECTION 🇪🇺 Fidias from Cyprus
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The European Elections just took place, and new members have been selected for the European Parliament. One of the new MEP's in Europe is now the RUclipsr Fidias Panayiotou - he is a young RUclips prankster / MrBeast copycat guy who randomly got 20% of the votes in Cyprus. Whay is going on? Why are RUclipsrs becoming politicians now? Are we living in a future dystopia or a Black Mirror episode? Is Europe COOKED?! Let's talk about RUclipsrs in politics and what this might mean for the future. Smash like and sub for more! thx xoxo
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00:00 2024 EU elections: It's JOEVER
00:53 Who is Fidias?
03:09 Exploiting poor countries for content
05:16 Fidias Political campaign & election
07:20 RUclipsrs in Politics before
08:27 We live in a Black Mirror episode
09:29 RUclipsrs & politics in Russia
11:27 Should RUclipsrs be politicians?
12:26 Conclusion & thoughts 
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Why are we here in this life? Why do we die? What will happen to us after death?
It's crazy with Fidias
Hell nah bro, you just said Tyler Oliveira uses people from impoverished or dangerous areas for comedy gain??? Nah bro you're braindead as heck for that. Enjoy the dislike, Tyler Oliveira is a real journalist. 3:40
Framed MFDOOM on the shelf
I don't know what the black mirror is but you should watch idiocracy if you haven't.
We have Mr. BEAST clones in the EU parlament before GTA 6 😭🙏
he's worse then a mr.beast clone
it wasnt contested... so he sailed to election lol.
I mean, in the US ... youtubers would probably improve the situation. We got kremlin gremlin MTG clan mom bat shit crazy conspiracy theorist in the house before GTA 6.
😂😂
@@TheWasatchCrown mate the us is just a sandbox game at this point.
Yes the “main character” who has recorded himself committing crimes should be a governing force
he'll be in similar company XD
It had to be Cyprus the only non euro EU member
You could be talking about Trump....
That's how infantile the electorate has become.
Coming from Greece, the model country for Cyprus in politics unfortunately, and I'd say that he is a tame politician compared to his peers in both Greece and Cyprus.
His crimes are mostly trespassing and being petty, meanwhile in Greece we have politicians that have been charged with drug trafficking and in Cyprus there have been politicians that have been charged with the homicide of migrants, by ordering not to save migrants that were in Cyprus' maritime borders.
_To test a man's character, give him power; to test it further, send him to Japan._
Hahahahhahaha 😂
Huh, I behaved well in Japan. Guess I should become a US politician.
@@Butter_Warrior99 Couldn't hurt, I'm sure you can't do any worse than the politicians people get to choose from now.
@@Butter_Warrior99 You better lower the price of the living cost, make people retire at age 60, give us tax cut, mass deport the illegal immigrants and fix America!
I am Cypriot, what is going in a complete nutshell is that politics in the island is a mess. Certain political parties have been ruling for quite some time and the amount of mistrust generated by the populous is amazing. Additionally, being in such a geographical location, half of the island being occupied and what happened with our financial crisis and how it was handled by the party in power, TROIKA and EU, really gave the likkle island a punch in the groin.
And let us be honest, all the world, not just Cyprus we need better role models. The world is filling with psychopaths craving the spotlight. Sorry for the steam.
i lived myself in Limassol for a while and I was gutted to see how little people really cared about their country. most of the youths have never even voted, many proper cypriots live far away in villages and have their own shit to take care of, being alright as long as they have their diplogambino and no one bothers them or their crops. only those with private interests really move the strings, and it shows in how little care gov takes of their own, the speculation (like that horrendous casino by Akrotiri or the many buildings right in front of the Limassol marina) and the absolute shock between old Limassol and new one. Seeing a fucking Aventador next to a 40 year old Honda parked in a road with potholes was like a fever dream to me. Seems like a place that only cares about money, so it mostly means foreigners who couldnt give to shits about the country or brainded youtubers are the ones who have enough influence to move shit
It really fucking sucks, because Cyprus is a beautiful and history rich country that deserves a hell of a lot better :'(
kala gamisia
@@isaacd4425 if people doesn't vote then it just means they don't suffer from government's politics, at least to the certain moment...
@@isaacd4425limassol in a nutshell can be summed up just by looking in germasogeia touristiki with all the nightclubs and breeze, and then you look across the road and there is that building that has been destroyed for god knows how long
ep don’t swear in Greek bro!
Nico Semsrott, german comedian was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019
Well with nico we got a great Book and some Videos out of it
Don't forget zelenskyi whose had to grapple with his ties to koromiskyi😂😂
Yeah, but he and Martin Sonneborn have basically been exposing the crap out of the European Parliament since. They're actually doing serious work, unlike that new guy.
yes and absolutely nothing happened, except he showed the flaws of the european parlament, nobody cares how much money you spend etc etc
@@blarfroer8066 Thats was the Reason why i Voted for DIE PARTEI in 2019
(Which was my frist time)
Not all youtubers in politics are terrible politicians, though. For instance, Nico Semsrott, youtuber and comedian, was antil recently part of the party "Die Partei," a mostly satirical party with a focus on exposing corruption and lobbying. He was voted into the EU parlament and, besides the exposing corruption and supporting legislation that would have made lobbying more transparent, advocated for more social programs and a better green policy.
If this guy supported New Green Deal that caused the farmers to start mass protests across the EU I guess he was actually a horrible choice.
NFKRZ's campaign for the EU parliament representing Portugal when?
When he becomes a citizen of Portugal obviously
Maybe he will live long enough to represent Russia.
@@amadeosendiulo2137 Russia won't leave when he gets this citizenship
I don't know the rules, maybe it would be enough for him to run if he would get permanent residency of Portugal. Or more likely he'd have to be a citizen.
Especially the latter would probably take years to achieve -- at least through the normal route; I think Portugal is one of the EU countries that have been criticized for essentially _selling_ residencies and citizenships for rich people. So maybe if Roman's channel will make enough money he could get citizenship faster. And then he could become the RUclipsr representing Portugal in the EU Parliament, hopefully improving the image of RUclipsrs after Fidias has been there fooling around.
@@DimaShirshkov1 so next election
Russian man more educated on European politics than the average European.
Russians are culturally and mostly ethnically Europeans though
_Did I claim otherwise?_
@@Truerussiantigershark Technically he's from Chelyabinsk which is just behind the Ural mountains meaning Roman in particular is geographically Asian.
Ooooo FUN AND GAMES!!!
@@xyz3524 that’s why I said ethnically
As an American who holds degrees in political science related majors, I can confidently say that outcomes like "youtuber (or other unqualified celebrity) wins election" are an inherent part of the experience in democracies. Besides the obvious example of Trump, we've had Arnold Schwarzenegger as Governor (basically like president of the state) of the state of California, a professional wrestler named Jesse Ventura as governor of the state of Minnesota, actor Clint Eastwood has been mayor (kinda like president of a city) of the city of Carmel in California. Those are just examples off the top of my head... Oh yeah, and President Zelensky of Ukraine who was famously an actor with no political experience before he won election.
I'm not saying that I'm in favor of these outcomes (I'm not) but it's par for the course that occasionally celebrity will win over actually being qualified in free and fair elections. It's part of the fun of elections.
And the EU would be so lucky to eventually have EU minister Roman Abalin in another 25-30 years. Seriously.
So?...the Romanian president is an ex physics professor, whom political experience was that he was also the mayor of his home city.
@@user-wp2wi1hb7ymy bigger point is that in democracies, it's not always the "most politically experienced or qualified" candidate who will win elections.
Ronald Reagan
@@notMattGarska that's what I was gonna say, she missed the biggest one lol
Hah, you forgot to mention President Ronald Regan, a movie actor before becoming president in the 80's when life was much simpler and the main media was just radio and low density color TV. I kind of miss those days.
" I love democracy" But not ironically. All jokes aside, Internet is becoming an increasingly important part of people's lives, so it was only a matter of time.
In Lithuania we literally had TV stars political party who got voted to our government and it was a shitshow at first but actually quite few of them turned out a lot better then normal politicians.
Who would you say is the best out of them?
Hello from Cyprus!
I just wanted to tell ya: never vote as a joke, you aren’t the only idiot.
@cardyceps7728
💥 Smashing sentence!! 💥
Greetings from Portugal!
People aren't voting as a joke because they're idiots but because they don't feel being represented by democracy. If democracy cannot treat them seriously neither they're obligged to play seriously with democracy.
Those are wise words
I didn’t mean as literally-700 IQ, I meant what you say - be serious when it comes to this kind of stuff.
@@cardyceps7728 then first the state should be serious with embracing multi-party systems, however even the most democratic parties that rule around the world just tend to restric minority vote.
Manipulating the sizes of electoral districts, establishing special rules of participating in voting or straight up scraping the entire electoral systems for the sake of more unbalanced approach towards smaller parties.
Not to mention suppression of parties by infiltrating them with literal saboteurs to sow sense of distrust and disunity in smaller parties leading to collapsing any aprty that would be ready to challenge the established system.
People are seeing through this stuff and the only thing they can do is to just laugh and don't take any other side for it to only collapse under the pressure of the parties of old.
I personally believe that he won’t be the biggest threat for EU parliament because you still have there one Slovak member who literally stated that “All Slavic countries will unite and turn the entire Western Europe into dust together”
😂 bruh... He also won't be the biggest nuisance, bc now there will be one Romanian member there, who *constantly* makes street-like scandals in the Romanian Parliament...
the issue is that we get more and more of these clowns and extremists in these positions. We're approaching US levels of brainrot here in europe
sounds like some joke Mountain general would make
The biggest threats are Rassemblement National and AfD
Based????? Greater yugoslavia when?
‘Germany … of course’
*nervous laughter
naah...just 16% voted for the party that wants to get rid of ALL illegal immigrants...oh wait...no the _christian_ ... _democratic_ ... party, wants that also...
just hoping no one would notice that every refugee is an illegal immigrant. -.-'
but just 16% r Nazis. They voted for a party with assured nazis at the top. And chinese spies...and russian spies...
they could nearly make a revival of the _spies girls_ - badum tss -
bro joined enemy teams to get more info 💀💀
Dude, anyone who looks up to Elon is a big L in my book😞
Elon is another one of those people who only love money and nothing else. Like his buddy Trump. Elon would sell his son for a profit.
He doesn't "look up" to Elon. He simply hugged him once for a video.
@@captngYou straight up suck. And fuck his money. Never seen a hearse followed by a U Haul truck
Roman is an anti-communist. That's also an L.
@@captng Unless you've listened to Musk's gross hypocrisy, elitism, bigoted opinions or support of war criminals like putler. Musk is making the issues in the US worse, South Africa can have him back as far as I am concerned.
I am from cyprus and been watching you for years, its so surreal to see you talking about cyprus, i'd also like to give some context on how he got elected:
Cypriots have generally no clue what this guy did on his english channel mainly because his greek channel was wayy different (i.e podcasts) his english channel was not really popular here. It's also strange that no party tried to capitalize on the crimes he commited as a way to attack his integrity, which i guess proved no one had any idea about it.
The main idea and the reason people voted for him is as a wake up call against the usual political parties (left/right wing) and to show their frusturation against their lack of action in the past 10-15 years given that no progress has been made with the illegal occupation/state we have on the other side of the island. He was extremely honest on his lack of knowledge but he also capitalized on the fact that he can learn quickly because he is young, the guy did everything and anything to succeed and that is true, but that led him to being a complete idiot to other people. I feel like because he was so honest people related with him more, because he was a simple guy like everyone else, so if he got elected then that would prove that anyone can be a politician.
From what i can see on his newest videos he does seem to be pretty serious about it, and also i feel like his 'english' persona is just a fake character he put on in order to make money, he is completely different when you can understand greek, especially after the elections. His plans now are to meet with as many parties as possible and then decide who to join meanwhile he tries to learn how the parliment works.
Or atleast thats what he claims.
A vote of protest..
Exactly how Leventis few years ago ended up in the Greek parliament 😏
It was strange how not ONE person on Cypriot TV criticised him. It’s like they want this convenient idiot in a position of power
@@molonlave303true 👍. I was also amazed on how all the systemic TV channels promoted him. He was constantly invited in the most popular shows in every TV channel
To be honest. If fidias was polling his subscribers and shit before making a decision... that would be a fuck ton more democratic than the current system of lobbying and meeting with corporations behind closed doors to make decisions.
I agree that lobbying should definitely be banned, but it's also not as dire as you say in the EU institutions (in the US, it might be different). For example, see the EU USB-C law and the Right to Repair legislation - no company would give their consent to that, and Apple fought tooth and nail to not have to comply. Not saying that this is all perfect in the EU, but it's not as bad as you say here.
@@SuperShikakuGotta love it when this crowd totally doesn’t understand how lobbying works😂
As a Cypriot viewer of your channel, I have some thoughts to share:
A small correction: Fidias is not actually Eurosceptic. He has embraced the EU and the importance of the European Parliament many times. He even considered joining the ballot of the Green Party of Cyprus, but his audience insisted that he run independently, so that’s what he did. Moreover, it is not the 12-year-olds that voted for Fidias (obviously, since the voting age in Cyprus is 18). According to exit polls, Fidias was voted for by people across the age spectrum, with no significant over-representation among younger ages. The content on his Cypriot channel is vastly different from the "silly MrBeast-like content" he publishes on his international channel.
Despite the image Fidias projects to the world, he is far from "another stupid RUclipsr." On his Cypriot channel, he publishes podcasts with many reputable figures, including politicians and journalists. He engages in serious conversations and is a deep thinker. While the videos on his international channel may be controversial (especially the older ones), his image in Cyprus is completely different. Through his daily RUclips Shorts, he has become like a best friend to many Cypriots, and during his campaign, he was approached by people of all ages. He can be a clown when needed, but he knows when to be serious and responsible. People see a truth in Fidias and a willingness to learn and become, as he said, "the best MEP of Cyprus." The fact that his father is a priest and the positive comments from nearly everyone who has met Fidias have further improved his public image.
In Cyprus, this is the number one news topic since election day, and it has been dubbed the "Fidias Phenomenon." The Cypriot political system used to be very stable, with the four main parties holding the same positions since basically always. Now, Fidias, as an independent candidate, has surpassed well-established parties with tens of thousands of members across Cyprus and finished 3rd, just 2 percentage points below AKEL, a party that has always dominated the Cypriot political system along with DISY. Fidias achieved this solely through the power of social media, without spending anything on ads, billboards, etc. No other independent candidates have ever come close to being elected as MEPs or even MPs in the history of the island.
To conclude, although Fidias may seem like a silly clown, he is actually much smarter and more responsible than he appears. During his campaign, he met a remarkable number of people, all of whom have a very good impression of him. Fidias took his role very seriously and is currently taking lessons from other Cypriot MEPs.
Despite not having voted for him, I can see what others see in Fidias, and I actually believe he can bring positive outcomes. Through his RUclips Shorts, he will bring people closer to the European Parliament and the EU and increase youth participation in politics. Europe has enough "normal politicians"; one less won't hurt anyone. Fidias will be an experiment for the future of democracy and the power of social media. In the end, no one knows what will happen, but even if he fails to deliver what he promised, he certainly can't be worse than the numerous far-right fascists who have been elected and are considered "normal" and "acceptable" politicians.
Interesting. Even if I am old and think that vertical video is evil. 😆
Well said. He even said that he will no longer be Mr.Beast clone, so he does recognize that a lot of stuff he was doing wasn't right. Also, he seperated ways with Airrack long ago. Nothing he said during or after the elections was irrational, he is evolving fast.
Very accurate decription of the situation! Well said
good to know that
thats good to okow
We live in a society 😔
wait we do?????
Fidias doesn't have to remember the actual Europeans that Cyprus isn't even in Europe
Cyberpunk is not that far off,guys.
@@rishisaini5269 Cyberpunk was honestly not as bad as I expected. Apart from the giant, unrealistic, lack of cyber security, Cyberpunk is mostly a dystopia because the USA has exploded in a million pieces. When you actually look at Night City, every single part of the city, even the supposedly poor parts, it's actually quite clean and well kept. People walk the streets without worry even at night and there are barely any homeless people outside unlike some countries today. As for the "scary" part, Megacorporations are just governments, they control territory, have armies, enforce law, they are no different than a very capitalist country.
Indeed we do
as a Cypriot i think that fidias won because the young people of this country are not happy with the left or the right wing parties so it was like a slap to the system from young people. Fidias run as an independent with no party backing him. He said that he doesnt support any party and that he will try his best to be useful to the people.
Having a guy like that to represent the youth isn't a slap to the right or the left, it's slap to their own face.
You could make an argument for that but we are talking about Fidias here.
"try his best to be useful to the people" lol sounds like a politician alright, already lying. Bro just want that oligarch money.
Well good for him, I hope he does well 👍
Re malaka our politicians are bad but this guy is such a bad representative of the country
Related to that. Here in Spain 800,000 bkokes voted for our version of Alex Jones, giving him 3 seats.
His program was wanting to get into the EU Parliament to escape prosecution by the Spanish law.
Who is this? I'd like to read up on him.
@@grizellda2540 Alvise Pérez
@@grizellda2540 Alvise Pérez.
Another day I have to be sad that my nation started the most recent trend of insane populist conspiracy theorist in the mainstream "news" and politics. Hopefully you can sue him into oblivion like we have Alex Jones over his nasty misinformation/slander/libel.
These idiots are in every country trust me... Our most progressive party in Czech republic with best future plans etc. Got least seats and instead communists claimed their 2 seats... Insane times we live in. Although, not much will change in the EU parliament after these elections. Von der Leyen and EPP are here to stay. Things will pretty much be like before
thank you for mentioning Cyprus on the Internet
In Spain a new party called "The Party has finished" (Se Acabo La Fiesta or SALF) got 3 seats
Be happy, anti establishment parties in other countries are usually fascist.
Guess,their party is just starting.
A few comments here from a Brit living in Cyprus. There's nothing wrong you've said about him, but many young people here are apathetic about poilitics. He stated that his main reason for standing was to get more people to register to vote, he wasn't expecting to actually get elected. That's a worthy cause in itself, the fact that those young people registered, voted and voted for him is what got him in. He got over half of the 18-21 vote.
Joking aside, what this SHOULD show the mainstream parties is that they've failed and are continuing to fail the youth and the youth DO have the power to vote them out. I see this as a positive.
On the other hand what ISN'T positive is that the far right ELAM, who used to be funded by Greece's Golden Dawn also got a member elected.
Really? It's interesting considering that golden dawn doesn't exist anymore
@@Pavlos_Charalambous Correct, that's why they USED to be funder by Golden Dawn.
Κλάψε αριστερέ, ξυπνάει η Κύπρος και κατ' επέκταση η Ευρώπη.
There was a time where here in Quebec where some unknown barmaid agreed to put her name on the ballot basically only to allow the few voters of her circumscription to be able to have a candidate, any candidate. She did not campaign, everyone expected her to come in dead last.
Yet, on the federal level, the party leader makes a killing in the province, there's an unexpected surge of support and she ends up winning. Alone with kids, not much of an education, no political experience whatsoever. But she did take the job, did it the best she could, and even though the tides have changed at the national level and she eventually lost her seat, everyone agreed she did absolutely great.
Who knows, when shit gets real, some people change for the better. Although I don't harbour that many hopes for some Mr. Beast copycat, I guess the people of Cyprus can let the guy cook and hope for the best?
What's her name?
Ruth Ellen Brosseau
viewer from Cyprus here, there is a lot of context to add to this. In short people here are fed up with political parties because they don't care about benefiting the people also him winning the votes over the far right party which was projected to be third or second i guess its kind of a win. Also he apologised for his previous videos and he says that he is committed on learning to become the best EU Parliament member. In addition he wants to make improvements in the education system. It seems so far he might aligned himself with the greens or liberals in the EU parliament. I see this as more of an experiment that can go terribly wrong or it could actually be beneficial as young people can have someone telling them directly what EU policies are how they help etc which imo is something that is missing as a lot of people dont have time to spend on politics unfortunately. We will see.
Also, it's been proven that Airrack fakes videos and scams people with his merch. And these 2 guys are best buddies, so Fidias probably does the same
well he is an elmo fan, so it tracks.
well shit, maybe he IS a true politician then!
Nah not you
having a bad day.
@@Romanian_Nationalist_Mapper Look at your profile picture. Grow up.
Wasn't that Belarusian guy who run for presidency a few years ago a youtuber aswell?
Why even try to win an election in Belarus? Its rigged from the beginning.
It's different tho, Tikhanovski was openly anti-Lukashenko and politically active and whatnot whereas this guy is some youtube clown
RUclipsr 2nd, or 3rd... not 1st like here.
In prison now. That's how they operate over there.
If youtube was in 1960s: Actor wins California election
Arnold Schwarzenegger? :)
@@SuperBubba01 Reagan!
And neither he nor Ahhnuld were the worst pols that CA ever got. Compare them to Moonbeam or Newsom.
A popular gun youtuber Brandon Herrera ran for congress in my district in Texas. He lost by 400 votes. He actually ran a legitimate campaign but unfortunately the establishment backed the incumbent with 10x the funding Herrera got.
tbh a gun rights extremist isn't really the best candidate
Yeah, I don't like how partisan Brandon is, I think he gets too blinded by the "conservative" "news" media but at the end of the day I don't think he is a bad guy with bad intentions. Texas could have/already has worse representation. I'll respect a principled stance I don't agree with. I wont respect blind partisan gang politics.
@@TheWasatchCrown yeah he is a good guy after all
That was so hilarious. They tried to smear him so hard. Called him a [RUclips DOESNT LIKE THAT WORD] just because he made a joke calling the mp40 the original ghetto blaster
@@goldenfiberwheat238 which is tragic because there are real neo n[redacted]is out there that need to be called out but we cheapen the term on character assassination of someone who made a joke.
This made me chuckle. To be fair, Roman, this is called a democracy. And the EU is a flawed one, like the USA. But still, it is amazing that stuff like this doesn't happen more often.If you are interested, check out the system in my country Switzerland. Here we have NO excuse if we are complaining about anything because it is actually very easy to get involved. So actually we should cheer such stuff, even when the ones using it are idiots like that. Imagine that system now in Russia.. one problem though: it not only encourages the public to inform themselves and get involved, it makes it your duty. But seeing how Switzerland is doing compared to the rest of Europe.. I guess it works.
Agreed. Cherish this system, as flawed as it is, for as long as we have it.
It's really depressing as an American to see Europe infected with our brainrot.
You guys in Switzerland actually have a different and unique, real, democracy.
Also don't forget that geography and history plays a very important role in any country's relationship with freedom.
Switzerland is basically a natural fortress, and you're the one living inside it.
No one will ever dare to come looking for trouble against you, in your huge snowy mountains ;-)
The one thing when talking with my fellow swiss about participating in the EU hat comes up mostly are not immigration (Switzerland has 26% foreign residents and the right wing surge you see in the EU... we had that in 1970 already) but the lack of democracy as we understand it. In Switzerland, if I am not okay with something, say a new law, I can either do the bare minimum and wait til it is time to vote for... or I can get a couple friends and initiate a better law.. or actually put myself up for a political position. It is a LOT of work, that's true. But in the end, if something goes wrong... I have only to blame myself. Most swiss look at the EU or the US with suspicion because it is so flawed (same for Germany, France, Italy, most swiss can't imagine living under such flawed systems)... as for countries like Russia, Belarus, China.. they are completely unthinkable to us. For a time there was a channel called 1492 who interviewed people on the streets in russia (what happened to those guys? Anyone know?) and the lack of interesst of the russian people in their government and politics was scary. Most regular answer: I don't care for politics.. it is a nightmare scenario to think of such answers from the public. And yes, I am aware most of those answers came from a place of fear... but still.. it is shocking to see
@@shanwyn It was 1420, but yes I do remember them, and I did watch plenty of their videos. I hope they're okay
Don't worry I am half Greek and Cypriot Greek can be hard to understand with the differences and accents. Also when it comes to RUclipsrs running for public office there are some who are the complete opposite of him who have been elected in local and national elections including in Sweden so it's not all bad.
Atleast he is not the only only one. Imagine if the entire Cyprus was represented by him alone
Right? Hearing he’s one of 6 made me feel much better (I mean, not a LOT, but still better, lol).
*stands up in parliment to present his opinion"
"Hey whats up guys, today i got this amazing plan to PRANK the citizens of cyprus by making a policy that imports over 100,000 muslim turkish to this region of cyprus known for being the most islamphobic! alongside with the construction of a grand mosque that will be donated to turkey, lets see how this social experiment plays out!"
Ronald Reagan, Sonny Bono, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Vladimir Zelensky, Donald Trump...there are so many more people that started as actors and influencers that have run for and won offices than you realize.
I rather want youtuber politicians than politicians funded by billionaires
Because many might not get the joke, Alexey Navalny actually was a Politician first and who became youtuber after (also in parts getting ousted from politics)
End of the day he was just a nazi
As a Greek person seeing Fidias win in Cyprus kinda gave a slap in general to Greeks of what young people can do and how unsatisfied we are currently with the rest.
Is he the best role model? Absolutely not especially considering his RUclips content. We knew that. But it’s a change from the left and right that only catered to its retired people in order to get re elected again and do no changes at all to the economy and the corruption. Both to Cyprus and Greece.
we are so fricking cooked
Came to make a Borat comment then you did it for me in the video hahah
My name is borat i like %@&
I love that movie i feels like borat is real person because the way the movie is edited i really feels like borat really made it himself
Someone being a elon musk simp is the biggest red flag I’ve ever heard of
Yes, he did. I just hope he knows that he is now a servant of the people.
Thank you for talking about this.
I saw this ages ago, I didn't know who he was originally but now I am concerned for the future of us fellow gooners. 🙏🏼
Roman, the same has happend here in Spain, a far right youtuber/telegramer called Alvise Pérez has obtained 800.000 votes.
Difference is Alvise has always been political. This is guy is just average clown
and on that fateful day, fidias started his special parliamentary operation
The "beauty" of democracy .
Well yes people vote whoever got the most win
For those who didn't know, Sweden's Pirate Party won an EU seat in 2009 and still holds one EU seat today. Therefore, a RUclipsr winning an EU Parliament seat is not surprising. Additionally, in September 2011, the Pirate Party won 15 seats in the Berlin Senate in Germany.
As a German, I'll have you know, that we have representatives from a satirical party in the European Parliament since 2014.
Roman, the classic Greeks (who invented democracy) had nothing but contempt for a grown man who DID NOT engage in politics. They literally termed him "idiotos", one who stays to himself and avoids participating in government. The city-state of Athens even fined habitual offenders. Zelensky is a man who matured into the presidency of a nation, from his background as a media mogul. He has become a consummate politician and a compelling war-time leader. He has been indefatigable and successful in raising aid for Ukraine. He may have seemed a light-weight when he first gained power, but no one questions his validity or ability as a political leader now.
You get fined for not voting in Australia too, & I think it's very sensible. They can't force you to cast a valid vote, but if you're in a polling booth with a ballot & a pen, why wouldn't you vote for the best candidates, or at least the least-bad ones? If you don't, it's a hugely disrespectful slap in the face to those who fought & died for democracy, & you better not complain about anything the government does, cos you threw away your chance to vote in better people.
I agree about Zelenskyy too: he also has a law degree, & a lot of his comedy was political satire. He's not perfect, but you can't compare him to this loser.
@@beth7935 Australia definitely has its problems, and forced voting is one of them. What a pile of feel-good crap.
The idea that not voting is disrespectful to past generations falls pretty flat when the current crop of candidates and party partisans are _opposed to_ and _violative of_ the principles that past generations fought and died for. This is especially the case here in the US, and I'm not rewarding their betrayal with my vote. I've done that and guess what happened: I watched the laws and principles of my country _get betrayed._ Gee, what a shock. Zap. Adults learn to not play that bs.
Plus, casting votes for people you don't actually approve of tells the populace _and the politician you don't like_ that you do like them after all. "This is what the people want", says the one who isn't the None Of The Above that the people want. Adults keep it real, while forced voting keeps it fake.
Plus, the idea of "if you don't vote, you can't complain" just literally means _shut up and accept the choices we give you._ Oh hell no. You're not entitled to my vote _OR_ to my silence. Adults don't play that false dichotomy bs either, thus I don't vote _and_ I don't shut up.
As a Cypriot, we voted for him because of how fed up we are with the establishment of the same parties getting voted for. His Greek content is actually authentic and not shallow, but unfortunately on his International channel he was an idiot. In Cyprus he has a much different image to us. If you want to judge him as a politician you need to understand his Greek content to see his serious side.
"authentic"
MEPs are also paid a basic salary of 10,000 euros per month. EU tax is paid for it first, after which the salary is around 7,800 euros. The MEPs still pay a national tax on that, after which the remaining share varies according to the income tax rate.
However, the general expense reimbursement of thousands of euros is not affected. Mepei are paid five tons in hand every month without any other explanations. With it, they can pay for office supplies, taxi trips, the rent of the domestic office or other representation expenses.
In principle, you can use the money as you want, for what you want. The budget for assistants is 28,000 euros per month. Similarly, daily allowance, 350 euros per day, is only paid for those days when MEPs participate in the official activities of the parliament, i.e. plenary sessions or committee meetings. Now the travel allowance has been 300 -400 euros per week. It has been a compensation for the time and intermediate distances that are spent traveling to the workplace in Brussels or Strasbourg.
I’m shocked and surprised, Cyprus? Being mentioned? HELP? O.O
Me... a RUclipsr... is not looking forward to a RUclipsr run government in the future. We cooked bro.
Hello china man
Laowhy for president!
It will be funny to see you having a meeting with Xi. 😂
This is almost like in Sluga Narodu when the history teacher became president.
hello will be cool to discuss this maybe in a short youtube video
hello bro
lol
In the last election, in Germany 2 comedians won in the election.
Thanks!
Love that you've got Hideki Naganuma's "Humming the Bassline" for your advert background music LOL :D
Imagine his disappointment when he realizes those votes aren't views and all he gets is a stupid chair.
He will be paid really well to sit on that chair 😉
A well paid chair for the next 4 years
9:16 well i cant tell he wont behave that diffeentky than one of our future MEP. You see, here in romania, a far-right party called S.O.S Party ( Yes, thats its actual name) won 2 seats in the EP. And the leader of that party is one called Diana Șoșoacă. And lets say she is something of a trump-like character and in the worst way possible.
Here, she is know for being very flamboyant, cringy and always seem to make a fool of herself. And more than that, she is even openly pro-russian. She made a lot of posts that spouse kremlin conspiracy theories, criticises the romanian goverment's role in aiding Ukraine and she even met the new russian ambasador on the Russian National Day.
And now we will send her to Brussels. And this is not the only insane thing that came out of this election for us (or rather electionS as we also voted for local elections)
Roman when you get citizenship in Portugal run immediately to be president of Portugal
Im not surprised. I expect more RUclipsrs to become politicians in the future kinda like how actors and celebrities have. I’m not saying thats a good thing but it does not surprise me at all.
If that guy can be in the EU Parliament, than Roman can run for the presidency in Russia.
The current President of Finland, Alexander Stubb, is also a RUclipsr. He was also Prime Minister in 2014.
Barely a RUclipsr now. He was a career politician before thath.
@@rkan2 He got elected President in March. When would he have time to do RUclips? Finland's President is also Commander-in-Chief of the Finnish Defence Forces, which just joined NATO. He probably only sleeps 4 hours a day with all that going on.
@@sammiller6631 "now" as in not present time, but in this instance of commenting about the video.
Yes.. and he also has a PhD in international politics from the London School of Economics
Lol no😂😂😂😂@@sammiller6631
Seems like a logical step - considering Reagan was an actor, Sonny Bono was a musician/actor. And a fair number of musicians and actors get into politics - sometimes they even do a good job. Maybe he'll grow up with the rule.
Thanks for the new clip! It was very low (volume)
On the plus side he seems like the kind to get bored because it turns out he has to work. If he makes it a full term I'll be surprised.
There's no consequences to you not working in the EU parliament.
Not like there is a test to become a politician. And with the freedom we have in the west to vote for whoever we want, ANYONE can be voted in.
I guess if he can be elected in, why can’t I? I’m thinking of actually running for fun
Not going to lie, most parties rn aren't any better than a RUclipsr
I think its great. These RUclipsrs could teach the other politicians to be transparent about who is sponsoring them.
"Todays adress to the council is sponsored by SHELL."
In the 90's we had a similar situation in Denmark whit the comedian Jacob Haugaard, but he became quite responsible afterwards.
it's like the tv show american gods by neil gaiman, where there are new gods like a god of social media emerging and becoming more powerful than the traditional gods.
It's more like Idiocracy the movie.
Just reminds me of the time when Kanye tried to be president.
I have a cousin at the Parliament too, I wonder if they can get me in for double the clowness.
I think the EU will be the same with or without him in the European parliament. From the little I've seen of him outside of his own youtube channel he actually seems like a well-meaning guy, but obviously very goofy and perhaps not with the best judgement. Let's just hope that worse people won't try to follow his example.
I’ve heard people talking about how his Greek channel is very different and very serious and actually shows his personality
As a German I can confirm the obvious vote behaivor and as a son of a germanrussian hows born in Kasachstan: "kasachstan ist the best country in the world. All other countries are... "
i think you misunderstood him
he is actually a really nice dude but definitely not a politician
Don't know anything about this youtuber, but: some years ago, two people, Martin Sonneborn and Nico Semsrott - both comedians - were elected to the EU parliament in Germany. They ran for the party "Die Partei" (literally "the party"). Turns out that these two dudes were the probably best MPs in the parliament, because of their brutal transparency. And yes, they also have a lot of followers in social media.
Again, I don't know anything about this guy who was just voted in - perhaps something like this isn't the worst way to get representation for the young and politically interested people though?
We have MTG as a rep from the US state of Georgia. She said the huge California fires were caused by Jewish space lasers… 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
there's a comedian at war you could've put that in the video.
He did a video called The Ukrainian President's Bizarre TV Show
Zelenskiy or Pootin?
I was going to go there. Shocking that Roman didn't think of it.
fun fact is that fidias and his family said that used to go to extremist right wing protests so take it as you may
He's openly talked about how he comes from a nationalist background but has now moved away from it
we need NFKRZ in the parliament!
Love your content ❤❤❤
That's why I ALWAYS go an vote, even if I don't have anyone to vote for. Because the fringe weird people are always going to be mobilized, and far right people too, and if the turnout is low, they basically get the whole pie for the taking. That's why the average person needs to go and vote, to keep such far right, and youtube/tiktok prank from actually making it into government.
wait what
yes
Great backing tune
Some context on the collapse of the UKIP vote in 2019: Nigel Farage had left UKIP, set up the Brexit Party, and the Brexit Party became the brand that UKIP previously had, with UKIP being nothing more than a minor rump of its previous self. This is the reason why the UKIP vote collapsed in the South West region and all across the UK, and the Brexit Party came first in the UK's 2019 European Parliament election. The RUclipsr candidates had little, if anything, to do with it. (The Brexit Party later changed its name to Reform UK and polls suggest that it is now convincing many former Conservative Party supporters to vote for it in the upcoming UK general election. Since the UK uses first-past-the-post in Parliamentary elections, this should split the right-wing vote and help Labour to come first in more places and win many seats.)
I am not surprised. You should check a real gentlemen from Greek nationalist party (Nazi party) Fredi Beleris. A guy who was convicted in Greece in 1995 for having weapons in the trunk of the car which were stolen after killing two Albanian border soldiers, after attacking a base and stealing their weapons. Got convicted in Albania for desecration of national symbols around 2007, a case that went up to the European Court of Human Rights and the conviction was upheld, newly convicted again in Albania in 2023 for corruption and paying voters to vote for him in a local municipal election in Himara - Albania. Awaiting his appeal. He just won and became Eurodeputy for Greece in the European Parliament. I think this crazy convicted guy is even a more interested case of what a joke Greece is.
You're probably an Albanian and that's why you are spreading propaganda. ND is a center leftist party, nowhere near Nazism lol,fredi beleri was a democratically elected leader that is being persecuted by the Albanian tyranny.
Zelenskyy, a comedian, elected to become president of Ukraine.
how many laws did he break?
Zelensky was actually more of an actor. Like you know, Raegan and Trump.
@@animeXcaso A lot
So glad you mentioned Channel 5!
Please tell me he's a Ukrainian supporter or loves democracy
Who? Roman?
No, he's from Cyprus
The youtuber that us now president
You’re a great dude. Happy to see you safe in Portugal. Keep crushing it🎉
Loving that MGS2 music
I was like 'wait...'
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He also got 10/12 Cypriot presidential candidates to let him interview them, with only the front runners (Conservative/Pro EU vs Marxist-Leninist (yes, actually)/Soft Eurosceptic) not accepting.
He considered either running as an independent or as a member of their Green Party. He decided based on a TikTok poll which 70% of people suggested the former.
He actually won a small majority of the vote in Paphos district (Western part) and got sporadic municipalities across the nation voting solidly in his favor.
He supports the idea of improving education, through getting rid of testing and promoting self learning. He also highlights the importance of at least understanding AI and Bitcoin. A main part of his campaign was to remain Non Partisan.
His ambitions as an parliament member are to start a new party, join the Education Committee, and suggest the creation of a Social Media Committee and an AI Committee.
If you want to look on the more cynical side, it’s that one of Cyprus’ other new representatives is from the ELAM party (Eurosceptic and Ultranationalist)
I cringe at some of the online comments saying “I trust him to do good more than a politician” because… absolutely fucking not?
Well, now he is a politician
Italy 2013 be like:
This is honestly hardly new. Ronald Reagan was appointed the 40. president of the United States in the year of 1981. Same thing.
And Trump in 2016
Yes. Also Arnold Schwarzenegger was a governor of California
Yeah and Reagan accelerated our descent into a Russian-style oligarchy. You guys should be worried.
@@DimaShirshkov1Schwarzennegger as a former Austrian…
Writes in resume: "I have no interest in politics"
Voters: "Lets make him a candidate"
System: "Seems legit"
do you think normal politicians have an interest in politics or interest in money? what I thought
@@gewnurb Of course not. But they are seldom as open and honest about their incompetence. This guy didnt even try to hide it and still won despite telling everyone in the establishment that he had no interest being there.
Its as if signing up to a job and writing in your personal letter that you hate working just for your boss to go "now i know he is honest" and hiring you anyways.
I have no faith in humanity.
In the EU elections that those youtubers chose to run for ukip, it was post-brexit referendum and Nigel Farage left UKIP and made a new party called the brexit party which basically took all the votes. It wasnt really that the youtubers caused the votes to go down, but that people voted for Farages new party instead of his old one.
He’s going to take the lunch money of the nerds in Brussels 😂😂😂 that line made me laugh so hard man
Yeah, don't mess with nerds. They tend to be educated & know their stuff, & if you don't, they'll calmly obliterate you with facts & logic. 😎