The AUR presidential candidate, George Simion, went on stage uninvited during a debate on Antena 3 CNN, at which point he started arguing with the moderator of the event, Mihai Gâdea, who asked him if he was a Russian agent.
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George Simion has said he will withdraw from the Cotroceni race if images of him and GRU officers are released, after the head of the SRI scrutiny commission claimed there was evidence proving the AUR leader had met with Russian agents.
Catalina Porumbel: If pictures of you appear at the meeting with the GRU officers where some exchanges are made, you withdraw from the race.
George Simion: I certainly ask the SRI to say if there are genuine images.
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Moderator Mihai Gâdea reproached him for refusing to participate on TikTok and accused him of trying to impose his own rules on the Antena 3 show.
George Simion: I came invited, you you invited me
Mihai Gâdea: You said on TikTok that you don’t want to come on this show. I’m not teaching you rules of politeness, but don’t enter a show when you want to.
George Simion: I’m retiring and it starts at 23 if that’s ok.
Mihai Gâdea: No, you don’t. the program. This is not Russia Today, this is CNN. you you were invited and replied on TikTok that you don’t want to come to this show.
Mihai Gâdea also addressed the accusations made by the head of the SRI control commission, who stated that there is clear evidence linking the AUR leader to agents of the Russian services.
Mihai Gâdea: Today, the president of the SRI control commission said that there are documents and concrete elements of the services that your you met with officers from the Russian services. your partner and the first on the lists from AUR says there is footage from the Polish service. Are you a Russian agent?
George Simion: You invited me to the set, you made a statement. You can’t provide any proof that you invited me. A PNL senator or deputy is campaigning. The position of the SRI was clearly stated, so it’s not about anyone from the SRI, I ask the SRI to say any proof, any proof it has of any association of mine.
Mihai Gâdea: So he lied?
George Simion: That president is a PNL member, he is a parliamentarian.
Mihai Gâdea: When our colleagues were at the elections in the Republic of Moldova, they did an interview with the police chief. He stated that they stopped at the border several buses with Moldovan citizens paid with various amounts of money by Kremlin-controlled organizations to participate in your protest. These coaches are documented, there are proofs, proofs that have been sent to the Romanian Government. In addition to this, the chief of police in the Republic of Moldova was also talking about your connections. with pro-Russian politicians from Chisinau.
George Simion: Mr. Coștiuc does not do pro-Kremlin propaganda, just as I do not do Kremlin propaganda either and I do not want to be sung the anthem of Russia but the anthem of Romania. Some denigrations and unjustified attacks are being made against us, and I make the same appeal to Ciolacu, to the authorities. I don’t know about coaches, we organized a protest at the EPP summit, you can also show those images.
The president of the commission for the control of the SRI, Ioan Chirteş, said on Tuesday, about the ban on the entry of George Simion, to Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova, that there are accusations and clear evidence that the AUR leader had meetings with GRU officers and tried to divert peaceful demonstrations, electoral marches.
