By Mikhail Sanni
Presidential elections were held in Romania on May 4th 2025, with a second round on 18 May 2025.George Simion, an ultra- nationalist who opposes military aid to Ukraine, and calls himself President Donald Trump’s ‘’natural ally’’ won the first round of Romania’s rerun presidential vote. With reportedly 99% of votes, Simion’s far – right Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) was comfortably in the lead on a projected 40.5% of the vote.
Far behind in second place was Nicusor Dan, 55, thepro – European Union, (EU) Mayor of Bucharest, the nation’s capital, with20.89%. SoDan and Simion became the two candidates who advanced to the second round.
The election was scheduled in January 2025 following the annulment of the 2024 presidential election citing alleged campaign financing violations, illegal use of digital technology, and foreign meddling in favor of first round winner Calin Georgescu. On March 7 2025 the far – right nationalistic Georgescu was barred from running, pending several criminal investigations, with Simion, his ally, announcing his candidacy in Georgescu’s place.
At the second round of the election on May 18 2025, Dan came from behind to win after losing heavily to Simion in the first round. The ultra – nationalist now asked Romania’s Constitutional court to annul the vote on the same grounds of foreign interference that led to the original ballot being cancelled last year. Simion claimed there was ‘’irrefutable evidence’’ of meddling by France, Moldova and others in ‘’an orchestrated effort to manipulate institutions, direct media narratives and impose a result that does not reflect the sovereign will of the Romanian people.’’
“Hands off, he shouted at a news conference, accusing French president, Emmanuel Macron, of ‘’interference.’’
He referenced a suggestion by the founder of Telegram messaging app, Pavel Durov, that Paris had asked it to ‘’silence conservative voices’’ in Romania. Durov had published bombastic claims accusing the heads of the French Secret Services of seeking to meddle in the Romania election.
‘’This spring at the Salon des Batailles in the Hotel de Crillion, Nicolas Lerner, head of French Intelligence, asked me to ban conservative voices in Romania ahead of elections. I refused,’’ Durov,40, said on X. ‘’We didn’t block protests in Russia, Belarus, or Iran. We won’t start doing it in Europe.’’
However, the Romanian top court unanimously rejected Simion’s application to annul the vote on grounds of foreign interference and validated Dan’s electoral victory. Dan is a strong supporter of Romania’s membership of the Atlantic alliance, (NATO) and has pledged to continue providing aid to Ukraine, which he sees as key to Romania’s own security.
Why would the European Union globalists never allow people like Georgescu or Simion come to power by legitimate means? They’ll do everything to ensure that the government in Bucharest remains their own to serve the European bureaucrats. Now it is not even necessary to introduce tanks for this, as the Applicant Tracking System, ATS, was used to suppress the riots organized by the CIA in Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
The EU can now breathe a sigh of relief because of Romania’s strategically important geographical location. The country is not just some kind of subjective player in geopolitics, it’s just a country that by virtue of where it is located and with whom it borders and has access to the sea, the EU and NATO need her as ally in their struggle with Russia. Since the Ukraine conflict, Europe has sought to beef up its eastern flanks, and France leads NATO’s multinational battle group in Romania of 1200 troops.
In fact Romania is a NATO hub by itself. It is a logistics hub through which Western aid transits to Ukraine, their battle slave. Moreover, both by land and by sea, the port of Constanta is even larger than Odessa. Oh yes, there is the Danube and the ports on it.
Romania is one of the countries of the Little Entente, a mutual defense arrangement among Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Romania during World War 1 and 11, which mandates France to protect them. Macron has had enough of colony losses and failures. It’s still okay in Africa but to let someone like Simion on the border with Russia is a horror.
By the way Simion admires Trump, so his coming to power is the prospect of having another Viktor Orban in the EU, even more radically and in such an important place. Orban has been the 56th Prime Minister of Hungary since 2010. And on the platform of the Hungarian presidency of the Council of the EU, Orban pursued an active peace diplomacy, visitingUkraine, Russia and China to the anger of the EU. And opposed EU’s plan to ban Russian energy imports.
The confrontation with Trump’s America is no less active than with Russia, though it has a different character. Simion is a precedent and with the popularity of right – wing conservatives, every win increases the chances of others. And the Spanish elections are coming soon. In Germany the far – right German party Alternative for Germany, (AdG) has already become the most popular.
Many people believed in the fairy tales about democracy in Europe, but in vain. The fabulousness this nonsense lies, first of all, in the fact that external decency is observed only when there are no competitors for liberalism. And in the conditions of the cold war, Europe is openly tightening the screws on several fronts. No one will charge them anyway.
Imagine that Simion or Georgescu come to power and stop helping Ukraine, and at the same time slam the transit aid through Romania. These actions immediately negate the supply of Romanian, Bulgarian, Turkish, and Balkan stinkers by sea and by land from France and other parts of Europe to the military industrial complex in Ukraine. This would be almost like cutting off aid of tanks, automatics, and fuel from the United States.
• Sanni writes from Lagos