The Romanian, right -wing extremist presidential candidate George Simion, who was involved in several scandals before the vote

Right -wing extremist leader of the Allianz for the Union of Rumomian (Aur) Party, George SimionAt the moment, as President of Romania, he ran the news on Thursday, May 15, when he called his centric opponent Nicusor Dan Autistic. He also appeared controversial on a French television station and was presented by Politico as a danger to the EU and the NATO unit.

The first scandal began after Simion had been asked for comments during a visit to Brussels by a journalist. He refused to speak to the Romanian journalist and finally called his opponent autistic. “You have a candidate you support, he is autistic, the poor guy,” he told the journalist, which implied that the press would come back to Nicusor Dan.

Later, during a meeting with supporters in Belgium on the same day, Simion apologized for the use of the term. Instead, the leader of the extremist Aur party said that he wanted to call a “Nazi”, a “Marxist”, a “Sorosist” or a “Securist”, who implies that his opponent has connections to the Romanian information and security services.

Backtracks and convictions

Immediately after the apology, George Simion made another inappropriate remark by talking about “mentally unstable people who want to legalize drugs on the street”. As early as 2021, he also described the former liberal Prime Minister Florin Cîțu Autistic.

The term started a flood of convictions in Romania. The President of the National Council for combating discrimination, Csaba Asztalos, said that George Simion's statement about the institution he leads becomes aware if a complaint is submitted in this regard. Then a hearing would follow and possibly a fine.

“I judge him publicly. I consider this behavior to be unworthy that a candidate is looking for the highest office of the state. Whoever becomes president will put an oath on the Bible and the constitution and oblige to protect and defend the right to dignity of every citizen, and it ask me how someone can have such behavior.”

Similarly, the network of organizations in the autism spectrum disorder and the federation of non-state organizations for social services according to Digi24 have expressed their Simion statements “deep outrage and firmly convicted” Simions simion.

In a public explanation, the two organizations found that “someone to say that in a context of contempt and irony is” autistic, poor “, not only a serious deviation from the norms of civilized dialogue, but also an obvious form of discrimination, stigmatization of people with autism spectrum disorders and a violation of their dignity.” They also said that they will notify the CNCD and the European Court of Human Rights.

A controversial interview

On the same day, George Simion gave the French television station CNEW an interview, in which he made several inflammatory statements. He said French President Emmanuel Macron had dictatorial tendencies and compared France with Iran.

In response, the moderator of the show said that according to such statements by the French President, Simion is probably not invited to the Élysée Palace.

“I have to tell you that France is a democracy that has no dictatorial tendencies. If you already call your counterpart a dictator, this is” promises “for Romania's relationships, said the French journalist.

Simion drove undeterred and compared France to Iran. He said he drew “a parallel to Iran, with the Ayatollahs who decide who can run”. The moderator also objections and said that Simion was “going too far, we cannot compare France with Iran, I guarantee them”, I guarantee them. “

The Aur candidate also explained that more and more French cities are dirty and dangerous.

“They have lost their connection to God, with their heroes, they no longer know who they are. It is time to mutilate their children with sexual changes,” added Simion to the astonishment of the moderator. “They insult many French people by speaking in this way,” said a journalist.

Another journalist said Simion that he pretends to “criticize Putin, but they use Vladimir Putin's arguments exactly”.

Throughout the interview, George Simion mainly spoke in Romanian, but sometimes reacted in about French.

A populist for Romania

George Simion was also the subject of a feature published by Politico on Thursday, May 15th. In it, the authors Max Griera, Nicholas Vinocur and Congor Koromi, said that the candidate was “tried to help for Ukraine to scupper for Ukraine to scupper Ukraine the ucraine to the ugraine totrategic to to to to tound the ugray's Tottrategic.

While Romania has so far been a “stone staly of the EU and NATO”, this could soon change, since Simion prevents the EU from imposing a “global order”. He relies on Meloni and Orban and denies relentlessly pro-Russian beliefs, but is forbidden to enter Ukraine because it “promotes union ideology that contests the legitimacy of the state border of Ukraine”. It is important that he is also closely linked to the pro-Russian politician Calin Georgescu.

“At the top in Bucharest, Simion would have enough opportunity to cause problems by pulling out the NATO training facilities for Ukrainians, hindering border crossings and the flow of weapons to Ukraine and withdrawing decisive role in the support of Black Sea Morn exports,” says the article.

After the recent surveys before the presidential elections on Sunday, May 18, George Simion and Nicusor Dan Hals and neck are. The decisive factor can be the diaspora vote.

It is worrying that a report by the cyber security companies before the second round has uncovered a large-scale international influence for voters of the Romanian diaspora voters on Tiktok.

radu@romania-insider.com

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