🇷🇴 Romania canceled its presidential election, jailed the man who WON the first round, and now opposition leader George Simion says he might be NEXT! I spoke with Simion about the extraordinary situation unfolding in Romania... It's really shocking. In November 2024, Călin Georgescu stunned the political establishment by winning the first round of the presidential election. Two weeks later, the Constitutional Court ANNULLED the vote over unproven allegations of foreign interference WITHOUT evidence!!! Now Georgescu is behind bars, ordered into 30 days of pretrial detention over an alleged €1.1 million fraud. But Simion insists the case is politically motivated, and he believes the crackdown won't stop with Georgescu: “After Călin, I will come next.” Simion says prosecutors have opened 7/8 criminal cases involving his party's leadership, and the pressure is now extending to their families. The playbook is clear: try to break the people on the other side so that they eventually give in... Georgescu's wife and father-in-law have been summoned for questioning, while the daughter of one opposition MP and the wife of another have also come under investigation. And then there's BIG BROTHER!! He says intercepted private conversations involving Georgescu were leaked to the press, including remarks criticising Simion himself. He believes the intention was to turn the two opposition figures against each other, but it DIDN'T work. And there's another extraordinary contradiction. Simion says Georgescu explicitly urged supporters to remain peaceful after the election was cancelled, telling them to express their anger through the ballot box. Yet Georgescu also faces prosecution over allegations of plotting violent unrest following the annulment. The authorities allege serious criminal wrongdoing. Georgescu denies the accusations, while Simion says the proceedings amount to a campaign of political persecution. And Simion is making clear that he has no intention of abandoning his ally: “We are prepared to go to prison.” He says the opposition will take its case to Brussels on October 14, demanding Georgescu's release and challenging what he describes as the erosion of Romanian democracy. Nearly two years after Romania cancelled its presidential election, the fight over what happened is escalating far beyond the ballot box. @georgesimion @CG_Romania

🇷🇴 Romanian conservative leader Simion just told Romania’s president that AUR (his party) IS READY TO RUN the country, not heckle it. He walked out of talks with Nicușor Dan and said his party will not vote for any cabinet it does not sit in. After months of drift he wants a government that can last four years, and if parliament cannot build one he wants another election. No ministries have been carved up and no prime minister has been named. Source: @georgesimion / Writer: Samuel