Conservative, Anti Globalist and Euro-skeptic, George Simion is the nightmare of the Romanian establishment, as his lead in the runup to May presidential election is set to nullify all the bad work against Calin Georgescu, who won the first round of vote that was criminally canceled for unproven Russian infiltration.
Simion is riding the wave of anger stirred by the Georgescu cancelation, and has floated making him his Prime Minister if elected.
Reuters reported:
“NATO and European Union member Romania looked poised to swing towards Russia after far-right newcomer Calin Georgescu topped the first round of voting last November, but the country’s top court cancelled the election because of suspicions of Russian meddling. Moscow denied the allegations.”
The Reuters report has ‘political analysts’ saying Simion ‘would risk isolating Romania abroad’, because je wants to have a close relationship with US President Donald J. Trump.
“He is campaigning on a ‘Romania first’ ticket, advocating conservative policies, euroscepticism and close alignment with the U.S. MAGA movement.
‘I believe that just as MAGA won power in the United States, so too the Make Europe Great Again movement will have a majority in European institutions’, Simion, 38, said during a recent conference.
‘I do not doubt that anywhere in the free world the wind is that of change and of returning to common sense. The ‘woke’ madness has gone too far’.”
Simion came fourth in the ‘canceled first round’ of the presidential election, but inheriting the Georgescu vote, he leads opinion polls with 35% support.
“If elected, Simion has said he will make public ‘how much we contributed to the war effort in Ukraine to the detriment of subsidies for Romanian children and pensions for our elderly’.
[…] [His] six-year-old AUR [party] has grown from a fringe anti-vaccination group during the COVID pandemic to be the leading opposition force. It appeals to the working-class diaspora and young voters, and has built on popular anger with mainstream politicians.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/right-wing-simion-leads-runup-may-romanian-presidential/