The Romanian far right has left for the offensive. Two new candidates for the May presidential election were announced on Wednesday March 12, following the exclusion of the favorite from polls, Calin Georgescu, suspected of having benefited from Russian interference.
“With his downstream, we are going to resume the torch”said on Facebook the leader of the Alliance party for the Romanian unity (Aur), George Simion, who was the most established nationalist figure in the country before the lightning ascent of Mr. Georgescu.
Tuesday evening, he had excluded to apply, but this 38 -year -old official said he changed his mind after meeting Calin Georgescu.
To be sure that his political camp remains in the race and out of distrust of the institutions, he unveiled an unprecedented strategy. In a video, he displayed himself alongside a newcomer, the representative of the Youth Party (Pot), Anamaria Gavrila, 41 years old. Both will present themselves after having gathered the 200,000 signatures necessary by Saturday and they called the supporters of Mr. Georgescu to the ” sustain “.
“If the two files are validated, one of us will withdraw” To give maximum chances to the far right, said Mme Gavrila.
Calin Georgescu, who had created the surprise in November by leading the first round later canceled, was definitively failed; He then denounced “A dictatorship” and called to continue the fight “Peacefully” in the ballot boxes.
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Mr. Simion, whose training is the second in Parliament, had already presented himself to the presidential election on November 24, collecting almost 14 % of the votes, before rallying to Mr. Georgescu. This fan of Donald Trump, who defines himself as “Patriot”opposes military aid to Ukraine, the rights of LGBTQIA + and defends a “Sovereign Europe of nations”.
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Experts doubt about his chances of obtaining as many votes as Calin Georgescu, who was credited with 40 % of the voting intentions by polls, before the rejection of his file.
On the same political edge but making a separate band, the temperate candidate favorable to the Kremlin, Diana Sosoaca, who had been banished last year by the Constitutional Court, will also try to participate.
The race is now very open, the candidate of the pro-European coalition in power, Crin Antonescu, and the independent mayor of Bucharest, Nicusor Dan, holding in a pocket handkerchief (between 15 and 20 %).
Romania, a member of the EU and NATO not used to such political upheavals, has changed in uncertainty since the emergence on the political scene of Calin Georgescu after a massive Tiktok campaign, deemed illicit.
The election had been canceled in the process, a extremely rare decision, and itself has since been charged and placed under judicial supervision.