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Donald Trump & FSFE Matthias Kirschner election denial

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 09, 2023

Last week's decision to prosecute Donald Trump for trying to overturn the result of the 2020 US election reminded me of the dirty tricks in the FSFE election process. In 2017, the FSFE Fellows elected me as the Fellowship representative. The German candidate, Florian Snow, came third out of seven candidates. A few months later, Matthias Kirschner used his position as president to appoint Florian Snow as an unelected member of the General Assembly. In other words, Kirchner gave Snow all the same rights and powers as the person who had earned those rights at the ballot box.

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