About 19 million Romanians are called to vote this Sunday in the second round of the presidential elections that are repeated after being annulled in December by alleged Russian interference. The Ultra George Simion – convector of the first envy with 41% of the votes on May 4 and that takes over from the first and winner of November Calin Georgescu – will face the current mayor of Bucharest, Nicusor Dan, in a few elections that will settle if this country of Eastern Europe continues the European course or aligns with other countries of the community block related to Russia over the next five years. The diaspora, who massively supported the extreme right politician two weeks ago, began to exercise his right on Friday, unlike Romania, where electoral schools opened at 6.00 and will close at 20.00, during the peninsular Spain.
“We have for the first time two totally different options and also different support. Simion is a candidate with the extreme right, with recurring fascist messages, and backed with Moscow openly,” explained Basescu, former president of Romania between 2004 and 2014. In his office in a central street of the capital, the former head of state receives El País with samples of great concern and aware of the importance of the importance of the importance of the importance of the ball They reside outside, who have led him to be on the front line of the campaign in favor of Dan. “It is a pro -European, also formed in Europe; a person who will continue the European and integration and development of Romania,” said Basescu, who notes that “the Romanians have never been as divided as now”: “They will have to choose what they want, politicians will not be responsible this time, but each of them with their vote.”
Among the powers of the Head of State are the country’s security and foreign policy. In addition, the prime minister designates, approves the remodeling of governments through presidential decrees, has his subordination to secret services, the army and appoint the chiefs of the prosecutors, as well as judges. Precisely, the new head of state must designate the head of the Romanian Intelligence Service, as well as that of the Foreign Information Service, the heads of the Attorney General’s Office and Anti -Corruption and a judge of the Constitutional Court.
“If the Proeuropean candidate does not win, Romania enters an isolation period” that could be transformed into a “buffer space, next to Moldova and Ukraine, and between Russia and NATO,” adds the former head of state. From the beginning of the war in the neighboring country, with whom he shares more than 630 kilometers of border, Bucharest provides military aid to kyiv, while working as godfather of Chisinau in his desire to adhere to the community family. “Romania would enter under the control of Moscow, more or less declared. But, in addition, the president’s powers would give simion all the security structures of the State, so that, how do you expect them to invite you to the decisions in NATO and the EU, when you are an exponent of Moscow?”, Underline. “And Moldova would be sacrificed, since it advances towards the EU with the sponsorship of Romania,” he adds.
Basecu recalls that Simion, whom he met when he was the chief of the Ultras group of the Steaua Bucharest- the most laureate team in the history of Romanian football- and a “agitator” in demonstrations in which he asked for the union of Romania with Moldova in both territories, he cannot currently step on Moldavo and Ukraine soil. “How could a president be forbidden to enter Moldova, a brother country; or in Ukraine; which has an important Romanian minority,” he says. And he warns that Simion has already slipped to a possible defeat – the polls give a close fight between both candidates – that votes are being robbed. “This can generate a wave of violence,” he laments.
The former president, who was captain of merchant ships, does not believe in the legend that secret services influence political life, but rather points to the media. “There are three private news channels that have always had their own presidential candidate because the president designates prosecutors and judges, so that they want to control justice,” believes Basescu, who ensures that the Romanians have expressed at the polls their discomfort in presidential. “People have realized that they have been deceived,” as reflected in the two presidential elections in which no candidate of the government coalition – between the Social Democratic Party and the National Liberal Party, together with the Hungarian minority – entered Liza in the second contest.
The government formations “have created a revolt state, especially when they said they were going to raise the salary and increase the pressures and then discover, that they will not do it.” “I hope that (the Romanians) have passed the revolt and vote as it should be, the Romanians want to be in Europe, not under Russian influence,” says Basescu, who believes that autumn elections did not have to cancel. “They were canceled without credible arguments, they had to have been celebrated and then demonstrate electoral fraud,” he says. With the decision of the Constitutional Court to invalidate the first round two days before the second, the doubt was generated that a part of the system does not work, abounds. “The Romanians have been consistent, they have rejected for the second time a candidate of the government coalition,” BasecuCu remaches.
On the other hand, the Europarliamentary Siegfried Mure alert that Simion has adopted from the first round an increasingly authoritarian behavior: “rejects the electoral debates (it has only participated in one), threatens the journalists and attacks civil society,” he says, before warning that a victory of the ultra -rightist “would influence the stability of the entire EU. He assures, the key goes through the vote of the diaspora, from which a greater mobilization is expected than that of two weeks ago, when they came to vote a million, 120,000 of them in Spain. However, this vote was rather a reaction against the system, not a vote against the EU, ”concludes Muresan.
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