George Simion is the nationalist candidate in the second round of the Romanian presidential election. Having won almost 41% of the vote in the first round on May 4, 2025, he will face off on Sunday May 18 against the independent liberal candidate Nicușor Dan, who took almost 21%. George Simion, president of the Alliance for Romanian Unity (AUR) could become Romania's next president.
Belgian journalist Lionel Baland works with a number of European newspapers, including Breizh-info (French-speaking), for which he conducted this second interview with George Simion to better understand the man who answered the call of the Romanian people following the democratic fiasco.
How do you explain the incredible electoral result you achieved in the first round of the presidential elections?
The vote on May 4, 2025 shows that Romanians want real change more than anything else. I got twice as many votes as my opponent, the representative of the globalists and the George Soros agenda and supporter of the December 2024 coup, Nicușor Dan. The cancellation of the November and December 2024 presidential elections was a violent, unconstitutional and totalitarian act. We would never have thought that such an event was possible and that, moreover, it could happen in a member state of the European Union. But it did happen, and the Romanians reacted. I was very impressed by the mobilization of Romanians in the diaspora, people who have been working abroad for many years now but who want a country to which they can return with love and without fear of being suffocated by bureaucracy or the enormous problems facing the health and education sectors. We have shown that, together, we form an extraordinary force.
Was the first-round election campaign fair?
It was a different kind of campaign, conducted largely on the Internet. Many people were expecting massive street demonstrations, but that didn't happen. Previously, we had organized huge marches with hundreds of thousands of participants. Of course, in an election campaign, every political player denounces the behavior of his opponents. There's nothing extraordinary about that.
What are the fundamental differences between your ideas and those of the other candidate in the second round, Nicușor Dan?
First of all, my opponent obeys the globalist Emmanuel Macron and closely follows the agenda of George Soros. He doesn't care about the national interests of the Romanian people, but those of the globalist establishment. We support the natural family, which begins with marriage between a man and a woman, while my opponent allows so-called “pride marches” in the streets of Bucharest. Romania should prefer its national flag, not the rainbow flag. Unlike Nicușor Dan, I was on the side of freedom and the fundamental right to choose, both when, during the pandemic, the establishment wanted to lock us up at home and force us to be vaccinated, and, today, when the threat of censorship hangs extremely heavy. I want free and fair elections, nothing more.
Are you going to try to set up a government that will include the invalidated and then banned candidate Călin Georgescu and the leader of the nationalist POT party Anamaria Gavrilă, who has withdrawn in your favor?
Romania is in an exceptional situation. It suffered a terrible shock in December 2024. Călin Georgescu received the most votes in the first round of the presidential elections on November 24, 2024 and was then excluded without any plausible justification. It is only natural that he should be part of the leadership of the Romanian state, if, of course, he so desires. As far as Anamaria Gavrilă is concerned, apart from the fact that her party, POT, is our ally, I very much appreciated that Anamaria proved to be an honorable person and withdrew from the electoral race to support my candidacy. Of course, I'd like Anamaria to be part of the future government. Naturally, after May 18, we will have discussions to propose the best governance option for Romania.
What will you do to try and put an end to the war in Ukraine?
For more than three years now, we have witnessed the military-industrial complex making billions of euros by destroying property and infrastructure and killing innocent people. Russia continues to feed on chaos. It is crucial that this war unleashed by the Russian Federation against Ukraine comes to an urgent end. This situation is leading nowhere. I am an advocate of dialogue, peace and a return to normalcy. I firmly believe that US President Donald Trump can finally bring both sides to the negotiating table to achieve a ceasefire and end this war for good. From 2022 onwards, Romania helped Kiev with everything it needed, but I will never accept sending Romanian soldiers to their deaths on the Ukrainian front. A large community of over half a million ethnic Romanians living in Ukraine has been deprived of its rights. This is a crucial issue, and I will never stop defending their fundamental rights. I am a supporter of peace and of what is right.
Thank you George !
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