Five months after the cancellation of the first round of the presidential elections, the Romanians are back at the polls this Sunday, May 4, with a possible new victory of the extreme right.
Campaign on social networks, anger and disappointment of the population, numerous undecided: the ingredients are the same as November 24, when the critic candidate of the EU and the NATO Calin Georgescu had emerged with surprise.
Excluded from the elections by the Constitutional Court after suspicions of Russian interference, since then it has been replaced by an established figure of the extreme Romanian right, George Simion.
Eleven candidates in total seek this essentially protocol but influence on foreign policy, while this EU member country of 19 million inhabitants has become an essential pillar of NATO since the Russian invasion of neighboring Ukraine.
The electoral centers opened at 7 am to close at 9 pm Uns’s exit surveys will be published shortly after.
“President Maga”
Accredited by about 30% of the votes according to the surveys to handle, George Simion Blande his youth, his sovereign rhetoric and his dominance of the Tiktok platform at age 38 to wait to avenge his georgescu now ally. “This time, let’s steal the second round,” he promised.
If the deputy says that he is “more moderate” and denies any inclination for Russia, he shares the same aversion to “the Browssois bureaucrats”, accusing them without evidence of having interference in the electoral process, and promises to return their “dignity” to a Romanian too frequently.
In markets or abroad to convince the important diaspora, this Donald Trump fan is dreaming of “President Maga” (making America great again), a slogan sometimes shows himself in his caps. This speech pleases Stela Ivan, 67, who “expects with all my heart” his victory.
After decades dominated by the same political parties, in power since the end of communism, George Simion would bring “change” and bring back his children who went to live in Spain, he said after having received him hotly during his visit to the city of Alexandria, two hours from Bucharest.
“We want a person capable of defending the interests of the Romanians in the European Union,” he adds in the capital, Eugenia Niculescu, 65, who with a retirement of only 300 euros per month, struggles to pay their medications and invoices in this country undermining inflation.
Source: BFM TV
