The EU is preparing for a possible victory by George Simion, who came first in the first round of elections
Following the success of far -right Jorman Simimon (central photo), a declared “Trump”, who came first in the first round of the Romanian presidential election with nearly 41% of the vote, Brussels are now preparing for his possible victory in the presidential elections.
Simon, a candidate for the far -right alliance for the Romanian Union (Aur, the acronym forms the word “gold” in Romanian) is most likely to be the winner.
Voting in the country of 19 million residents, who is a member of the EU and NATO, is closely monitored by the international community after the cancellation of the previous vote, which was organized in November.
“Of course we watch” Romania, a diplomat assures in Brussels.
In the European Union, where the far right records its best outcomes since the end of World War II, a possible victory for this fan of “Romania first” would strengthen the nationalist camp, from Hungarian Victor Orban to Slovakos Robert.
This critic of “irrational EU policies”, and “impersonal bureaucrats” appeared yesterday, Wednesday, on the side of Polish President Andrei Dunda and the Italian Prime Minister.
And yesterday, Thursday, he was traveling the corridors of the European Parliament to meet conservative MEPs.
“In the populist camp they are happy to say that we will have another unruly child in the family,” says Florand Parmadier, a researcher at the Jacques Delor Institute.
His opponent in the presidential election, the Mayor of Bucharest Nicusor Dan, for his part, has the support of the central Europeans, who organized an event in Paris this week to support him. In the first round she received 21% of the votes.
Simon or Dan?
The one who will win on Sunday will undertake to represent Romania at the European summit and will have a strong right veto on important issues. Some fears that George Simon, who criticizes military aid to Ukraine, a country bordering his own, threatens to block it, as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been threatened with his European Union negotiations for years.
However, “Romania is not Hungary,” says one diplomat. Neither at the internal level nor “in its will or ability to oppose the dominant stream within the EU”, he wants to believe.
Jorman Simion is “much more in favor of a condemnation of Brussels and a set of technocrats than the European Union itself,” says politics Florand Parmadier, a specialist in the region.
In the corridors of European institutions, officials call for the Romanian candidate to be judged for his actions rather than for his Eurosceptic speeches if his victory is confirmed on Sunday.
“There is still a second round, let’s not speculate what can happen or will not happen in the future,” commented a Commission spokesman, Stefan de Keresmker.
“It will not be a good news to have a Eurofobic, but that does not mean that the European mechanism will be affected,” adds one European diplomat. “If we have to go through a few explosions, but we can, however, go ahead, let it be so,” he adds.
Source :Skai
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