Many have said that Romania is the place where European democracy went to die after the Liberal-Globalist establishment and the judiciary did the unthinkable, canceling the first round of elections due to unproven allegations of a Russian influence operation in social media platforms.
Subsequently, the powers that be went even further, barring absolute favorite Calin Georgescu from running in the May re-elections.
But Romania does seem to have greater resilience than we imagined because, after all that, another right-wing candidate is leading the opinion polls.
George Simion is the leader of Romania’s second-largest party, and just became the candidate the right-wingers are congregating around, after ally Anamaria Gavrila withdrew from the race yesterday (19) to support him.
“’We decided to support the one who has the most chances (of winning)’, she said in a joint video with Simion posted on their social media accounts. ‘We must go beyond parties and, as Mr. Georgescu said, we must support this movement by giving it all the chances’.”
Simion turned his party from an anti-vaccination group during the COVID pandemic into Romania’s leading opposition force.
“’Today, more than ever, Romania needs the unity of its national forces’, Simion said on social media.”
Simion, banned from entering Ukraine, demands that Kiev show greater respect to the Romanian ethnic minority, their schools and churches.
“With polls currently putting him in the lead for the first round of the election rerun, Mr. Simion is looking to unite the hard-Right, a task which will not be easy.”
He also supports a re-unification of Romania with Moldova.
“’We will not demand territories’, he said, adding: ‘So yes, I want to unite with the Republic of Moldova, but only if the Republic of Moldova will want it. I cannot go with guns and bombs and tanks in Putin-style, in Stalin and Hitler-style.”
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