Traian Basescu: Simion tries to capitalize on the flight of confrontation by saying that running from Warsaw to Rome means his ability to make foreign policy

Former President Traian Basescu states that the gold leader, George Simion, does not participate in the electoral debates before the Presidents 2 because “he has so many lies debit” and “knows that the press would ask for explanations.” “Simion tries to capitalize on this confrontation escape saying that this running from Warsaw to Rome means his ability to make foreign policy,” said the former head of state on Wednesday.

He was asked what George Simion was preparing with the charges of attempted electoral fraud, when he talks about foreign interventions and secret services.

“I would not say that he is preparing for something. He is simply part of his arsenal of political struggle, the lie, and that secret services intervene in the elections, and that he gives houses with 35,000 euros, and that he brings the monarchy. He is an individual who lives from the lie, has lived so far, and now, I do not live. Lies that tell us daily keep us busy-and on television, and we politicians who look or, if you want, even the pensioners who watch TV ”, said Traian Basescu, in a telephone intervention on B1 TV, according to news.ro.

The former president was asked to explain this “escape” of Simion from the press.

“Also at the cowardice chapter comes in. He has so many cuts out, he knows that the press would not forgive him and would ask for explanations. Or, to avoid this, he does a simple thing, he runs away. As well as to avoid confrontation with Nicuşor Dan and I do a parenthesis-which is more important in an election campaign than to the opposite. Pay.

“It is a caraghios that appears wherever it is not called or where it sees an event that they would use, trying to exaggerate its dimensions and importance,” said the former head of state referring to the qualified gold candidate in the presidential final on Sunday.

“The exigency of the electorate has decreased a lot. The electorate swallows this escape from the debates, tolerates all its nonsense, from the one to the lie that it makes foreign policy going to Warsaw and Rome, although it does not make any foreign policy. schooling and training level.

“What antisystem is Simion? Only if it is serious when he says he wants to bring the monarchy. Then it is about change of system. But when you maintain the Constitution and do not say a word in the whole campaign” I will go in front of the people with a new Constitution “, there is no change of system. It is not about the change of system as you do not talk about the constitution. of all the political forces.

In numerous messages posted on Facebook, George Simion accuses his counter -candidate, Nicușor Dan, of preparing the fraud of the elections.

The accusations were made while Simion is in a series of external trips-in Poland and Italy.

On Wednesday evening, from 8:00 pm, Romania TV has organized an electoral debate to which both candidates were announced who will face the Presidents 2 round. But Nicușor Dan was the only participant.

George Simion announced, during another debate, the one organized by the actor and comedian Micutzu, that he is in Rome.

The first debate attended by Nicușor Dan and George Simion was organized by the National Trade Union Bloc (NBS), last Wednesday, in Parliament.

One day later, on Thursday, the two counter -candidates participated in the Euronews debate.

Then Simion and Dan accused each other of avoiding a new confrontation. George Simion did not participate in the debates organized by Digi24 and Antena 3 CNN, while Nicușor Dan refused the debate from the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIR). Simion accused Dan of refusing the debate organized by the University of Bucharest (UB).