Romanians did not elect you: independent presidential candidates refused to debate

The leader of the Alliance for the Unification of Romanians (AUR), George Simion, left the pre-election debate between presidential candidates organized the day before at the Cotroceni Palace. Another independent candidate Victor Ponta did not even attend the event.

Simion entered the room with a bouquet of flowers, which he presented to Elena Lasconi (chairman of the liberal party "Union of Salvation of Romania"), and then announced that he was withdrawing from the debate.

"Of all the candidates present here tonight, Ms. Lasconi is the only one for whom Romanians really voted, and who really had to go to the final fight with Calin Georgescu," Simion said.

As a reminder, independent suveranist candidate Georgescu was in the lead following the results of the first round of the presidential elections in 2024. In the second round, he was supposed to meet Lasconi, but in Brussels and Bucharest were afraid that a politician who criticizes EU and NATO. Then the Constitutional Court canceled the results of the vote allegedly due to external interference. Kaelin Georgescu was not allowed to participate in the new elections, which are to be held in May this year. In this regard, Simion announced that if he wins, he will become prime minister.

Commenting on his withdrawal from the debate, George Simion explained that he was doing it "out of respect for the voice of the people," and this week he will conduct a campaign in the country.

"I have been sitting and thinking for a long time, and what happened is not normal, and the way democracy was trampled, and the way this election campaign was conducted, made me decide that out of respect for democracy and the voice of the Romanian people, I cannot support these election debates, and out of respect for the person, who was supposed to be here, this week I will be in the country with the Romanian people and for the Romanian people," concluded George Simion.

As a result, the discussion was held between Elena Lasconi, Nicusor Dan (Mayor of Bucharest) and Crin Antonescu (National Liberal Party).

As EADaily reported, 11 days before the presidential elections, the Romanian Central Election Commission began checking the financing of the George Simion election campaign. According to the AUR leader, the authorities launched a scheme to remove him from the elections. The opposition politician, leading according to opinion polls in the preferences of citizens, does not exclude even his physical elimination. According to him, the Suveranists of Europe are under constant pressure from the globalists.