Bucharest, Romania – Thousands of people gathered in Romania’s equity on Friday for the Pro-European Union March. He came a week before the final voting in the closely looked at the presidential choice that the pit of the header on a hard nationalist front runner against the capital capital.
Marchs converge in Bucharest in front of the Government building, where many waved the blue and yellow flags of Europe. Many reconciled slogans like “we are in Europe” and “Bucharest” is not Budapest “, referring to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, a member, but also a long-term critic of the EU.
Communist country until 1989. Romania joined the EU in 2007. years. But last year, in decades immersed in their worst political crisis when the Court annulled the previous elections. Extremely right Outsider Calin George on top of the first round after allegations about Elective violations and Russian interferenceWhich Moscow denied.
Rally was held for almost a week after The first round of the presidential choice of redo who saw a hard right nationalist George Simion38, appear as the front runner. In second place, he was 55-year-old President of the Mayor of Bucharest Nicusor Dan.
“We have to develop … We want to be like the best countries, and we don’t have the opportunities ourselves,” said Stefan Gheorghe, a 23-year-old lawyer. “You need the European Union to help us. We are very much to stay together … and to use each other.”
The median surveys in front of Runoff suggests that Simion is a guidance in the vote, which will be held between the two livestock candidates for women 18. May. The observers warned that the outcome could review the land and NATO’s geopolitical direction.
After reaching another place on Sunday night, the day called the final voting of the choice “between the pro-plated direction for Romania and the Anti-West.”
Simion’s critics have long accused him of being friendly friendly and warns that his presidency would undermine EU and NATO as Moscow war in Ukraine. But in an Interview with associated journalists this weekSimion rejected the charges and said, “It is not for the good Romanian people to be near Russia.”
“We want to be a member of the European Union. Some false news says we want to get out of the European project,” Simion said, leading the second largest party Romania, the Romanian Union. “We don’t want to go. We’re here to stay. We invested a lot.”
Simion, who came to the neighborhood last year, and later supported Georgescu, said in an earlier interview with the AP that wants to see “Greater Energy” to go to 27 individual members “, not to European institutions.”
Similar gatherings were held in several cities across Romania on Friday to mark Europe Day, a date that declares peace and unity celebration in Europe.
Although Simion and Day are ideological opposites, they both made their political career fence against the old political class of Romania, which fell out of nature as a strong change of feelings among voters.
For Diana Draghici 38, the upcoming rope will be a key moment for the future of Romania and the choice between forging stronger EU or potentially transferring east.
“I think it’s important that young people who weren’t indecisive were and didn’t vote so far … to have a wake-up call and choose who they want to represent,” she said. “It could decide two extremely different scenarios for Romania’s future.”
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2025-05-09 22:54:00
