George Simion: “We are here because a man from among the Romanian people united us, and this man is the man who was supposed to be the President of Romania” / “This rally is the rally of the Romanian people”

AUR President George Simion said on Saturday, in Izvor Park in Bucharest, that the protest supported by participants backing Călin Georgescu was not organized by his party. The AUR leader stated that the party had merely responded to a call from “the brothers” in the diaspora.

In his speech from the event stage, Simion greeted the Romanians who had returned to the country and claimed that people had gathered around Călin Georgescu, whom he described as “the man who was supposed to be Romania’s president.”

Participants once again chanted, “Călin Georgescu is president.” George Simion said that the former candidate had “a major fault”: that he “won the elections and the hearts of Romanians.”

The AUR leader insisted that the demonstration was “the rally of the Romanian people,” not the party’s. According to him, the purpose of the protest is for Georgescu to be treated fairly by state institutions. Participants are also calling for the release of the former presidential candidate.