A few months after the shock cancellation of the first round of the presidential election in Romania, the candidate of the right -wing, George Simion, came out widely at the top of the election which was held on May 4.
Five months after the shock cancellation of the first round of the presidential election in Romania, the party leader Aur, George Simion, is credited with 30 to 33% of the votes, according to two polls out of the ballot boxes. “” Together we have written a history page today “, Reacted the winner in a video message broadcast at the headquarters of his party in front of supporters who sang” Outside thieves, long live the patriots ».
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Eleven contenders in total broke out an essentially protocol but influence in foreign policy, in this EU member country of 19 million inhabitants who have become an essential pillar of NATO since the Russian invasion of neighboring Ukraine.
The surprise victory in November of Calin Georgescu, a former senior official accused by his detractors of being favorable to the Kremlin, had worried in the west of the continent and plunged Romania into political turmoil. The Constitutional Court invalidated the vote and excluded the sixties of this new race, after a massive campaign on Tiktok tainted with suspicions of Russian interference.
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He was replaced by George Simion, 38, and the two men appeared together this May 4 in a polling station in Mogosoaia, near Bucharest. During the campaign, George Simion brandished his youth, his sovereignist rhetoric and his mastery of the Tiktok platform to hope to avenge his now allied Georgescu.
If the deputy denies any inclination for Russia, he shares the same aversion to ” Brussels bureaucrats And opposes any military support to kyiv. On the markets or abroad to convince the important diaspora, this fan of Donald Trump is dreaming in ” President Maga (Make America Great Again), a slogan sometimes displayed on his caps.
Surveillance
If George Simion gains in the supreme post, he promised to ” Porter Calin Georgescu in power “, Evoking three options:” a referendum, early elections or the formation of a coalition in Parliament which would appoint him Prime Minister ».
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After cancellation, extremely rare decision within the EU, the ballot was under close surveillance. Thousands of people have demonstrated in recent months to denounce ” a coup ». The United States also intervened, the vice-president JD Vance calling for listening to the voice of a people who were silent ” Based on the weak suspicions of an intelligence agency ».
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The authorities, who have strengthened preventive measures and collaboration with the Tiktok network, assure to have ” learned the lessons »Fiasco. While the extreme right evokes ” multiple signs of fraud “, The government has pointed out disinformation campaigns, seeing” new attempts at manipulation and interference led by state actors ».
