Absent from the three public debates, George Simion went to Realitatea Plus: “I am the only one of the competitors who have friends in the current Trump administration”

The leader of Gold, George Simion, told Realitatea Plus on Wednesday night, that he is “the only of Sunday competitors” who has “institutional relations” in the United States and “friends in the current Trump administration”.

The gold candidate for the presidential elections, credited by the opinion polls with the highest score for the first round, was missing from all three electoral debates organized in the last week before the presidential elections, organized by Digi24, TVR and Antena 3.

On Monday night, Simion went to the debate from Digi24, offered a bouquet of flowers Elena Lasconi, then left, invoking that she could not hold such a debate, given that last year's presidential elections were unduly canceled.

Present on Wednesday night on the Plus Plus Plus plateau, Simion claimed that the return to the second round, with Elena Lasconi and Călin Georgescu, is “the only variant by which the law and the Constitution can be respected”. The gold leader said that he assumes a mandate of “return to the truth” and “restoring the constitutional order”, claiming that this year's elections are no longer about him or about gold, but about the “Romanian people”. “That is why we have to bring Mr. Călin Georgescu to the front of the country and this is the mandate I have and for which I run,” said Simion.

He stated that he keeps in touch with Călin Georgescu and that he considers him “the calmer and balanced man” that he has known in politics. “I was impressed and I do not know how to have the strength, when he was attacked, harassed by all the journalists, to close their eyes and to continue to say what he had to say, ignoring the background noise,” said the gold leader.

Simion also said that he is “still available to answer all the questions” and that he has “an unusual patience” in this campaign.

“I am the only one of the Sunday competitors who is known in Washington and has friends in the current Trump administration”

Asked about the accusations that appeared in the public space regarding a $ 1.5 million contract concluded by a golden lobby company, Simion denied that such a contract would have been signed or that any payment would have been made: “No, I did not pay any dollar.

The gold leader said that US political consulting companies offer their services and said that he preferred to collaborate with “young Romanian who have an international experience.”

“These things are normal,” added Simion, setting an example of Romania's ambassador to the US, Andrei Muraru.

After the moderator said that he would have been justified for someone to pay for the “US to find out the truth of the Romanian people”, the gold leader replied: “I am the only one of Sunday competitors who has institutional relations, is known in Washington and has friends in the current Trump administration.

The Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP) has officially announced that a golden party checks, after the press on the press on a $ 1.5 million lobby contract, to promote George Simion in the US. The document, of which G4Media first wrote, appears on the official website of the US Justice Department. Marius Lulea, first vice-president of gold, told Hotnews that he did not sign a lobby contract in the US and that there is no payment made from the subsidy account, money from the state budget, or any other party account for this service.

BGD Legal and Consulting transmitted, in a response offered Hotnews, that no contract with the Golden Party has entered into force and has not received any payment from the political formation or affiliated companies.

“No contract has entered into force, we did not facilitate any appearance in the media so far and no money has been made between us and the Gold Party or any group or person affiliated with it,” the company said at Hotnews request.