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8 reasons why George Simion as President of Romania would be bad news — not just for Romania, but for Europe
Some facts about George Simion, the extremist candidate that won the first round of the Romanian Presidential elections:
1⃣ He is banned from entering both Ukraine and Moldova for actions that threatened the territorial integrity of these two EU candidate countries.
2⃣ He openly supports — and is supported by — Călin Georgescu, a pro-Russian former presidential candidate who is currently under indictment for falsifying statements and supporting a fascist organization.
3⃣ Fiercely anti-European, he has repeatedly attacked the European Union, likening it to the Soviet Union.
4⃣He once physically assaulted the Minister of Energy inside the Romanian Parliament.
5⃣He has persistently and aggressively insulted fellow members of Parliament.
6⃣Simion has incited violence against electoral officials, even suggesting they be "skinned alive in the public square."
7⃣He has made wildly unrealistic promises — such as building homes for €35,000 — far below actual market prices and never fulfilled.
8⃣He shows disdain for democratic processes, refusing to engage in public debates with other candidates or journalists. After the election results, he vanished from public view, opting to send a pre-recorded video message instead.
George Simion is not a conservative politician. He is an anti-European extremist. His election would endanger Romania, threaten European stability, and serve as a strategic victory for Russia.
If he has managed to gain support through disinformation, manipulation, and growing anti-establishment sentiment, then it is our collective responsibility to speak out — to clearly inform the public about who George Simion really is, why he offers no viable solutions to Romania's challenges, and why his rise to power would be perilous for both Romania and Europe.
“Grok 3 by xAI confirms: @MarioNawfal & @elonmusk spread fake info on Romania in 2024-25—exaggerated arrests, baseless NGO plots. Hype over facts muddies its geopolitical story.”
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There you go.
Stelian Negrea, editor at Newsweek Romania, erupted with an intense inner fury, frustrated by having to sit at the table with "Russia’s agents" and treat them delicately, despite their betrayal and willingness to kneel before a hostile power for their own benefit
Elon Musk's and the Kremlins surrogate in Romania Calin Georgescu has been officially banned from running in the election. Massive victory for democracy and law.
MAGA and Vatniks are having an absolute meltdown.
Stop the terrible disinformation regarding Romania! Yes, IT IS DEMOCRATIC to ban an antisemite extremist funded by the Russians from running for President. IT IS DEMOCRATIC to cancel elections that were hijacked by the Kremlin. It would be both stupid and undemocratic not to.
WHY ELON MUSK and other rich scumbags want Georgescu to be Romania's president:
In their entire history, Romanians have never been so rich, secure and free as they are today as part of the European Union and NATO
We were always at the crossroads of empires and we always got screwed by the Ottomans, Russians, Hapsburgs, Austrians etc.
Later by Nazi Germany and the Soviets.
In the 90s, it was open season on Romania, wealthy foreigners aided by former Romanian communists turned capitalists appropriated huge amounts of money and resources.
Since 2007 when we joined the EU, quality of life and GDP have grown year by year and although we are far from perfect and we still have corruption it is way way harder to rob Romania blind like they used to.
In 2013, a very corrupt Romanian prime minister (and current enthusiastic supporter of Calin Georgescu) gave a license of gold exploitation to very shady business men with terms so bad for Romania it would make an African dictatorship laugh at how obviously stupid we would be to go through with it.
They wanted to erase the pristine town of Rosia Montana, completely wipe out a mountain and dig a huge pit that they would exploit using cyanide. The project would also wipe out a historic 2000 year old Roman Mine in the area. No real environmental guarantees as well and the site is believed to contain rare earths as well but we only got a small percentage of the gold sales. Everything else the company found was fully theirs.
Hundreds of thousands of people went on the streets for months in all Romanian cities to protest this deal. It was the longest and biggest peaceful protest in Romania's history.
The shady people behind the project spent millions in smear campaigns, fake news, paid journalists to do PR for the Gold Company, even hired actors too dress up as miners and call us enemies of the working man even though, with cyanide pits, you don't need traditional miners and the project would provide just a few hundred jobs. They of course called us agents of Soros.
But we kept protesting and the project was initially postponed then completely canceled because of huge public pressure.
Rosia Montana is now a UNESCO world Heritage site and the international court of arbitration decided last year that the 2013 deal was not done legally.
Make no mistake. They are trying to destabilize Romania with Georgescu because they see us getting stronger and they really really want our gold and to be kicked around by empires again.
Georgescu is not a patriot, he is an enemy agent who promised he would open up licensees for resource exploitation with priority going to the people who backed him.
Some of whom, Like Frank Timis, were instrumental in the Rosia Montana project in 2013
They want to steal our resources and abandon us to the russians when they're done.
For 50 years, our grandparents lived and died in Romania, waiting for the Americans to come and help us liberate ourselves from the communism imposed on us by Russia. There is an entire Romanian folklore around this.
Today, the biggest accounts on X—Elon Musk, Alex Jones, Mario Nawfal, and countless others—lie to the world, claiming that Călin Georgescu was "arrested." He was not; he was taken for interrogation and will soon be released because he "wants peace with Russia."
Georgescu, a pro-Russian and a product of the System/Deep State/name-it-as-you-wish we had during Communist Romania, is under judicial control for connections to openly fascist groups, for lying and fraud, for promoting individuals guilty of genocide, for incitement to actions against the constitutional order, and for other offenses.
By promoting Georgescu, these people are actively working to push Romania out of NATO and back into Russia's sphere of influence.
That sphere of influence is what we see every day in Ukraine—with each new explosion, with each new town destroyed, with satellite pictures of yet another mass grave.
@elonmusk—Imagine how millions of Romanians, the great majority of Romanians, feel right now.
Why do all decent people stand by Ukraine today? Why do free nations today pay a tribute to the heroes and victims of this inhuman war? Because this is a war in defense of us all: Ukraine, Poland, Europe and our values. Let no-one try to question the very sense of this fight.