The Romanian politician has plunged into chaos since the presidential election at the end of last year, when the two main parties of the establishment-Centrolevic Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the center-right National and Liberal Party (PNL)-were overshadowed by a surprising increase in the popularity of the extremely right-wing ultra-law ultra-levary ul. Georgescu, Calina Georgescu, who won the first round.
Georgescu was later disqualified due to doubts related to financing the election campaign and allegations of Russia's interference. The decisive round of repeated presidential elections will take place on May 18, and Simion has a chance to win, Using the wave of support for the right, which Georgescu built last year.
“A wide coalition needed”
Although PSD and PNL are a parliamentary majority, they once again fell poorly in repeated presidential elections and they failed to advance to the second round. Instead, Simion from the extreme right -wing alliance for the unity of Romanians (AUR) will face Dan, the independent mayor of Bucharest, in the fight for the president's seat.
– My solution is to create a great coalition government to get out of the crisis Simion said, adding that such a coalition is needed to stabilize national policy, fight the deficit and prevent a serious economic slowdown.
Prime Minister Marcel Ciolac from PSD resigned after the terrible result of his party in the first round of repeated presidential elections. Simion counted on and announced that he wanted to appoint Georgescu Prime Minister, because – according to him – traditional parties lost their credibility that would allow them to keep the government.
The Simiona Party, Aur, was founded in 2019 and quickly became the second largest party in the Romanian parliament. At European level, he belongs to the parties of European conservatives and reformers (ECR), together with the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Melons.
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The first task of the person chosen on Sunday will be to collect sufficient support in parliament to be able to appoint a new prime minister.
Simion, who said he was sure that he would win the Sunday election “crushing advantage”, argued that he could also include his opponent in the presidential election Dana, whom he called “Macron's man”.
“I would not exclude them because they are quite reformer,” Simion said, praising Dana's anti -corruption program and its goals regarding the limitation of bureaucracy and administrative expenses. “We will have to stay at the negotiating table and see who of them wants to enter the government,” Simion promised.
In the upcoming elections, which will probably be very even, the latest Politico survey gives Simion 49 percent. support, and Dan 46 percent
“The beginning of the Dark Era”
In fact, however, Simion will not be easy to build a coalition. Three of the four main parties in the country have already loudly and clearly declared that they would not enter the coalition with Simion: PNL, Central Unia Save Romania and the Hungarian minority party.
They consider Simills to be too radical and anti -European. They also criticize his hostile attitude to Ukraine. The extreme -right candidate repeatedly repeated that he would oppose further military assistance for this war -covered country.
– We can't imagine cooperation with AUR or Simion, It would be a disaster for Hungarians in Romania – said Botond Csoma, spokesman for the Hungarian minority. He described the potential victory as “terrible” and the beginning of the “Dark Era”.
He could potentially find allies in PSD, whose management after the first round of elections announced that he did not support Simion in the second round, thus leaving the door open to future cooperation with AUR.
However, it will not be easy. The party of European socialists, to which PSD belongs, presses on the Romanian party to avoid a coalition with Simion.
Socialists at European level are at the forefront of campaigns to exclude the far -right groups from the decision -making process in Brussels. Such an alliance in Romania would threaten their credibility.
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