The candidate for elections George Simion, who was to attend a presidential debate on the Cotroceni Palace on Monday night, left the studio after giving Elena Lascononi a bouquet of flowers.
“I would like to give this bouquet of flowers to Mrs. Elena Lasconi. Of all the candidates who are this evening, she is the only one who was even voted by the Romanians and had to go to the final confrontation with Mr. Călin Georgescu. I thought a lot and it is normal what happened, and the way democracy was trampled and how this election campaign made me decide that, out of respect for democracy and the Romanian people, I cannot find this electoral debate. Out of respect for the man who was chosen and had to be here, this week I will be in the country among Romanians. Thank you, I wish you a pleasant week“, Simion said, leaving the room.
Later, George Simion posted on his Facebook page the moment of departure, with the message “I do not legitimize the coup! Right to the end! Others were to be the candidates from the Cotroceni debate”.
And the independent candidate Victor Ponta announced in a post on his Facebook page that he will not participate in the first debate of the candidates, from Digi 24.
“I will respect and participate in any organized debate that treats all the candidates enrolled in the electoral race and all the voters. I will not participate in debates who invite only candidates supported by the parties who spend millions of lei monthly from public money; Not even at the selection of candidates based on polls paid by the same parties, from public money, polls that proved so false in the November 2024 elections. The exclusion of legally enrolled candidates and, especially, their voters are biased and non-democratic. Based on the false polls of November 2024, the candidate Călin Georgescu was not even accepted for debates, but was most voted by citizens“He said.
