Contrasts on the decisive night. How did the evening of the election George Simion live and Nicușor Dan

On the evening of the first round of the 2025 presidential elections, George Simion chose to speak to the supporters in the office, while Nicușor Dan went out to Cișmigiu where about 100 people were waiting for him.

In front of the General City Hall, Cișmigiu Park is animated at 20.30. One hundred people, maybe more, most young people, are gathered next to the scene mounted near the lake. It is not a joke, but a constant murmur, sometimes interrupted by a “Nicușor!” said more as an exercise in hope than as a cry of mobilization.

The supporters of Nicușor Dan gathered in the Cișmigiu Park PHOTO Adevarul

It is discussed in tone about votes, about the city, about pollution. Someone says that the exit polls at 21:00 “don't really matter”.

Nicușor Dan between caution and enthusiasm

On stage, a few staff members move for good hours. It checks the sound, looks at the phones. Do not seem stressed, but not relax. Everything takes place in silence, as a known protocol. The lights are gradually lighting, and a team from public lighting replaces burnt bulbs in front of the stage. Nicușor Dan was here, in the same place, when he won the City Hall. It can be superstition, maybe not.

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A detained speech

At 21 pm Fixed, Nicușor Dan climbed on stage. The public is giving him with discreet applause. Thank you – short, without emphasis – the team, the supporters, the ones from the diaspora. Does not make announcements. He does not proclaim anything. Ask for patience. “To wait for the full count“, He says. Avoid George Simion, although the surveys give him a favorite. He is limited to an idea:”It will be a confrontation of principles, not people.“

Young public with personal arguments

Elena Lasconi appears on the screen next to the stage. Short laughter, sign of irony, not contempt is heard. From the crowd you hear again “Nicușor”, but without a vignette. “Will not be easy“Says a young man.”But he's the only one who seems honest.“

Several supporters I spoke to see him as a lucid candidate in a tense confrontation. I say that in a fight with nationalist speeches and pro-accents, the calm can become aside. And I say that in the second round they will not show. They will be coherence. However, I do not think that George Simion's electorate must be convinced by Nicușor. “You have nothing to do, you cannot convince them how important freedom is. ” says a young lady.

Nicușor Dan came out in front of the voters at 9 pm Photo Adevărul

The end of the evening: Calculated caution

On the stage, Nicușor Dan delivered exactly what many of his supporters seem to appreciate: restraint, lucidity, lack of show. It was an evening without fireworks, but with tension in the air. In an electoral confrontation in which populism makes a show and the applause comes easily, the choice of not saying anything resounding, paradoxically, a strong gesture.

Among those gathered in Cișmigiu, the enthusiasm was temperate, but present. Rather careful hope than euphoria. Maybe because many know that the real stake comes only in the second round – and that, in the face of noise, the calm could become an act of resistance.

How did George Simion live the day of election

George Simion, the golden candidate in the presidential elections, spent the day of the first round, both in the country and abroad, but not among supporters, but from the office. The candidate appeared only at the time of the vote, along with Călin Georgescu.

George Simion and Călin Georgescu voted at Mogoșoaia Photo Inquam Octav Ganea

The day of the vote at the first round of the poll of presidential elections was surprisingly quiet at the headquarters of the Gold Party in the Capital. The candidate of the formation allowed to wait for both supporters and journalists. His attention was directed throughout the day outside the borders and demanded the extension of the program in the voting sections abroad. From time to time, the representatives of the foreign press were transported to the Parliament, to the office of the Chief Gold, for interviews.

In fact, the head of Gold accused in a Facebook post that “the international press is intentionally misinformed by the illegitimate governance of existing frauds”, thus revealing its intentions about the current government.

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Foreign journalists transmitted from the head of the Gold Photo on the Adevărul

The supporters started to appear at the Gold headquarters around 8 pm. People said they came for George Simion, but also for former candidate Călin Georgescu. One of the supporters said he voted for a country where “To be better, not to be so much corruption. Disappear corruption”Another supporter confessed that he did not know where to vote, because he came in front of the Gold headquarters precisely from Germany, being visited in the country. “I liked how he spoke on television”, He mentioned why he wants George Simion to become president.

Did not go out in front of supporters

George Simion was accompanied by Călin Georgescu. The two took a lot of crowd at the entrance to the polling room. However, the voters shouted “Călin Georgescu president”. The former candidate was the one who voted for the first and held the first statements. George Simion spoke later. The two were also complained to the police by the Ilfov County Electoral Bureau for several irregularities, including the continuation of the election campaign.

The estimates that the gold was expected in the afternoon were 28-32%. However, the party chief did not wait for the results with his colleagues. Until the closing of the polls, George Simion was also at his office in the Parliament. At the headquarters he came towards the evening.

The moment of announcing the first results were noisy, although the candidate appeared only on the screen. George Simion was missing from the time of the first Exit-Poll results, as opposed to the other candidates, although he was in the first place. He transmitted on Facebook that he will not be influenced by the first digits.

His statements came about 20 minutes after the announcement of the first results, live from the office, and not from the stage arranged in the yard, where representatives from the ECR Party went up.

Simion promised the country's reconstruction and addressed the supporters: “Together we wrote history today. We are approaching an exceptional result, far beyond what the system's television, who have known so far to arouse with deer: division, to spare with venom and to twist everything we said – that is, they have done what they have known! Time to be heard. ”

The announcement, in the absence of the candidate

What was noted, however, was the presence of the foreign press, besides the presence of all the televisions in the country. In the courtyard of the Central Gold headquarters, journalists from all over the world were also present, both television and writing press, from editors such as Bloomberg, Reuters, AFP, Politico, France TV, Le Monde, New York Times.