A rare weekend edition of The Sad Truth, featuring George Simeon, a leading contender for the presidency of Romania. He talks about how he won the first round of the presidential election, why the vote was annulled, and what happened next.
00:03:31.320Zero. They made like an essay, the Secret Service is in Romania. They made an essay about,
00:03:39.060without naming any competitor, about a state elector that was involved. They didn't name Russia. They
00:03:47.400didn't name Kalin Georgescu. They didn't bring any proof about money. Like J.D. Vance said in his
00:03:56.620Munich speech at the Munich Security Conference, about hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in
00:04:06.200Russia for publicity ads. No publicity ads. The only publicity ads and money were not by
00:04:13.080Russian involvement, but by one of the political parties here in government, the National Liberal Party,
00:04:20.680who invested lots of money just to smear me and to raise Kalin's chances. But they didn't know
00:04:29.860they will raise Kalin that high. Actually, the situation and the reality is that we have
00:04:38.020Romanians that are disappointed in the current political establishment.
00:04:44.580And they chose to vote an anti-establishment guy. It could have been anyone, but Kalin Georgescu is
00:04:54.340a fighter and is opposing this system for many, many years. So he won fair and square and he is entitled to be the
00:05:08.260Romanians, elected by Romanians. He is entitled to be president. He is not president because he is anti-establishment,
00:05:17.620he is anti-globalist, anti-woke, anti-war. So they decided to announce these elections and the only
00:05:30.420person then others followed, but the only person that said it was a Russian collusion, Russian intervention,
00:05:39.220was Anthony Blinken. And you can imagine, on his last days of office, he said it. Then our new master wannabe,
00:05:52.020Mr. Emmanuel Macron, repeated this idea, but nobody presented any evidence. They said something about
00:06:02.900bots, fake identities on TikTok. But the people were real. Two million, one hundred thousand votes for
00:06:12.660Kalin Georgescu. And we made big rallies, big demonstrations to protest against the annulled
00:06:19.700elections and hundreds of thousands of people went into the streets. So there are real people
00:06:28.260that want a change in Romania. And the change is not a colored revolution like the Soros network like to do.
00:06:38.980Is there a mechanism through, you know, I'm sure that there are all kinds of shenanigans that happen
00:06:46.100within the court system, but is there a process by which this can be appealed so that it can be reversed,
00:06:53.220or it struck down, it's the king has spoken, it's unilateral and we move on?
00:06:59.940This is without any precedent. The constitutional court actually is not formed of judges. It is
00:07:09.380formed of nine members politically appointed by the former president and the current government.
00:07:16.820Some of them are politicians, not people with judicial background. So nobody could appeal, nobody could do
00:07:28.340anything through the internal judicial system because the constitutional court is outside the judicial
00:07:37.220system. And then what happened is they continued the coup d'etat. They said we must have repeated elections.
00:07:49.620We raised the signatures for Mr. Georgescu. You need 200,000 signatures in Romania to be a candidate
00:07:58.660for the presidential race. We raised them again. And at the end of March they banned him again. It's like Iran,
00:08:10.260where you have the Mujahideen, you know, the Ayatollahs who say who can compete for public office
00:08:17.780and who cannot compete. And because the Venice Commission, who is in charge of democracy and in
00:08:28.980organizing elections and observing elections, said it's not possible in these elections not to have
00:08:37.220the possibility to appeal. They rejected Mr. Georgescu since the electoral bureau, that electoral bureau that
00:08:46.660is composed of representatives from the political parties and five judges and doesn't have the ability to reject
00:08:54.580anyone, per se, if that person has all the paperwork, all the signatures in order. So Mr. Georgescu had
00:09:05.060the paper works and the signatures in order. No judge, no jury convicted him and said he cannot be a candidate in elections and he cannot be a member of the parliament, a president and so on. But the electoral bureau with 10 votes against,
00:09:32.10010 persons against, 10 persons against four said, no, you are banned, you cannot participate in elections.
00:09:41.780This is our decisions. We voted through our conscience.
00:09:45.700So if, so sorry, so if, if, if there was no precedent to this process, but now there is a precedent, you now run and you'll tell us in a second how you are in the position that you're in now.
00:09:57.700What stops them if you win in this new process of exactly pressing the repeat button. And again, you were under Russian interference or Moldovian or whatever other country, what stops it from being an infinite loop?
00:10:12.340Nothing. Very good question, Professor Saad. This is why I'm doing this interview with you to spread the word, the word to get some, some international attention towards the crisis in Romania, because this is only arbitrary.
00:10:36.340And they simply don't agree with the democratic transition of power.
00:10:41.380But actually we are in a tough position. We are a country inside the European Union.
00:10:47.320So they will not dare to annul elections again.
00:10:50.820And if important rulers, important leaders in the free world take a stance.
00:10:58.640And I'm very glad that until now we have some important persons like J.D. Vance and the conservative leaders across the Europe who spoke out in defense of democracy and in defense of liberty or freedom here in Romania.
00:11:21.460I'm presuming that Interim Prime Minister Carney has not sent in his support for you yet, right?
00:11:31.900We know the Canadian society, many Romanians living in Canada participated in the freedom rallies during COVID, especially truck drivers who participated in the protest.
00:11:53.900So we also see from day to day to day life, many Romanians that worked in Canada returning home and saying the wokeism is too bad.
00:12:09.500It's impossible to live nowadays in Canada.
00:12:13.160And even if we are a country that is poorer and is doing worse from the economic point of view, they come back to Romania because we are still a free country.
00:12:27.300Now there's a contradiction in terms because we are a free country which cannot have free elections from what it seems like.
00:12:38.020We were in the first lines of protesting against the COVID restrictions and mandatory vaccination.
00:12:46.480And we had a rate of 40% of the population that was vaccinated with mRNA anti-COVID-19 vaccine.
00:12:57.220Are you in Romania having as difficult a time navigating through the very difficult conundrum of knowing what is a man or woman?
00:13:07.720Because in Canada, we're no longer able to determine what's male or female.
00:13:11.060Are you as woke and progressive as we are?
00:13:14.700Or are you sort of more towards the Hungary line on the continuum of wokeness?
00:13:20.920Oh, actually, we learned very well in school.
00:14:35.340We're looking towards Canada, United States, Western Europe, for democracy, for freedom.
00:14:45.300And we are disappointed that now a new form of Marxism took over, first through your universities, through your culture, organizations, then through the judicial system.
00:14:57.400And now they invested the political spectrum, what was once in Europe, right wing, for example, Christian Democrats and conservative parties lean very much to the left.
00:15:14.080And the political spectrum has changed.
00:15:19.980You cannot say a party is left or right, but there's a new separation here in Europe between globalists and patriots.
00:15:28.600And this is why I co-founded the mega movement to put the MAGA wave and to spread it across Europe and to spread the freedom.
00:15:41.400And this is essential to us because if we will not fight it, we are living like in the novel of George Orwell, 1984.
00:15:56.120Do you think that to the extent that countries like Hungary and Poland and Romania have gone through another earlier wave of parasitic ideas called, you know, Marxism and communism, that somehow that builds somewhat of an inoculation against the current parasitic ideas of wokeism?
00:16:19.000Because, you know, it takes a country that has everything to be able to afford the luxury of the stupidity that we see coming out of our universities, right?
00:16:31.280Whereas if you've gone through the harshness, the ecosystem of Romanian dictatorships, then maybe you're not as open to believing all of this nonsense.
00:16:40.640Do you think there is a bit of that inoculation that exists in Romania because of your very difficult recent history?
00:16:54.220We lived in an authoritarian regime that was imposed through the Soviet occupation.
00:17:04.020So we are well aware of censorship, of dictators, and we know that the state doesn't want what's best for you.
00:17:16.300And we know that they are lying through their TV channels.
00:17:20.800It's a good expression, the one that you used, the parasitic, I tried to order, it's not so easy, your Romanian, the Romanian translation of your book, Parasitic Mind.
00:17:38.900So, yes, we live under harsh times and we don't have the problems that Western countries that don't have any real problems anymore.
00:17:57.040So, inventing new types of gender or allowing the mutilation of children with gender change.
00:19:06.480So, maybe Justin Trudeau was right when he kept uttering the word, diversity is our strength.
00:19:12.500Should we be letting in more Islamic immigrants to enrich us in Canada?
00:19:19.200I believe in diversity, that God intended that we are different.
00:19:26.500But also, I believe in not mixing and ruining all that God created, because it's not normal that some of our political leaders, like Justin Trudeau, want us to be all the same.
00:19:51.460So, if Justin Trudeau accepts diversity, he must accept that in countries like Romania, Hungary, Poland, we pray to God, we are Christians, and we do not accept to have other civilizations, because this will only create problems like it creates in Western Europe.
00:20:16.880So, we are peace-loving nations here in Eastern Europe, but we don't want to accept the movement, intentional movement of other populations, because we are different in this planet, and we all must live together.
00:20:43.260We must be tolerant, but you cannot bring intolerant people to your home, which impose another belief and another cultural type.
00:20:56.440In Eastern Europe, in Eastern Europe, we don't have on the streets, terrorists, bombs, and I think the reason for this is that some of the Islamic people who do not read their scriptures,
00:21:15.640and they don't learn that God, or Allah, or how do you want to say, doesn't want us to kill each other.
00:21:29.000Jesus Christ talked about love, and we should all speak the same language.
00:21:36.320Amen. So, tell us a bit about your, you know, you've kind of stepped in now, and I think the polls are showing that you're leading, if I'm not mistaken.
00:21:46.600How did you get into it? What's the trajectory?
00:21:49.580And maybe just give us, you know, the few key items of your platform, you know, you're against open borders, you're, whatever it is, the key points, so that people who are not very familiar with Romanian politics get a sense of what is that your party stands for.
00:22:07.140Okay, so, after Colleen Georgescu was banned, me and another political party leader, Ana Maria Gavrila, a fine lady, talked with Colleen Georgescu, and we agreed to raise signatures, and us two to be candidates in the new race.
00:22:35.460It was like a miracle. It was like a miracle. We raised the signatures in 48 hours. People were standing in queues in the rain, only to sign for us.
00:22:47.280We were both accepted by the Electoral Bureau and the Constitutional Court, and Ana Maria Gavrila withdrew from the race in order to support me.
00:22:58.460So, now I'm the only sovereignist candidate, and all the movement is behind me, and behind Mr. Colleen Georgescu, because we want him as a leader, as a leader for our nation after these elections.
00:23:16.260So, of course, I am leading. We are hoping to have record attendance at the ballots, and we are hoping that this time the elections will be fair and free, and we are hoping that they will let the Romanian people decide.
00:23:38.140And the final casting of the ballots happens when?
00:23:45.000The 4th of May will be the date of the first round of elections. If needed, there will be a second round on the 18th of May.
00:23:56.120So, by mid-May, the whole thing will be known?
00:23:58.920Yes, and I am inviting you, Professor, to the inauguration.
00:24:06.240God willing. That would be very exciting.
00:24:09.660Okay, and so what are some of the key positions that your party holds?
00:24:15.660I mean, I think I already know the answer, but for some of our viewers who may not know, that is different from some of your competitors.
00:24:22.520There is an extraordinary campaign and fight these elections. We are not living normal times.
00:24:34.240So, our main focus is bringing back common sense, bringing back democracy.
00:24:40.340The key words for us is peace, democracy, and freedom.
00:24:46.900Ideologically speaking, we are a political party that has four pillars at its basis.
00:24:58.300Nation, family, family as in natural family between a man and a woman, Christian faith, and freedom.
00:25:08.900We, as governmental plans, plan to reduce red tape, plan to reduce bureaucracy, to reduce taxes, and to put the Romanians as the primary beneficiaries of Romanian wealth.
00:25:30.060We are a very rich country from the point of view of natural resources.
00:25:35.780We have oil, we have natural gas, both onshore and offshore in the Black Sea, salt, copper, and I think all the elements in the Mendeleev table.
00:25:48.980But, unfortunately, this rare earth and many other things are not exploited or we are not benefiting from this.
00:26:03.420Hopefully, hopefully, we will escape the state of a real colony and we will be sovereign, independent, and we will be equal members in our alliances in the European Union and in NATO.
00:26:21.060Do you feel that there is an awakening that's happening in Europe that is akin to Orban in Hungary, your party in Romania?
00:26:31.540You know, Marine Le Pen has gone through the same difficulty as Mr. Georgescu went through.
00:26:37.660I mean, using a slightly different process, but the end result is that our globalist overlord decide that you are good enough or not to be sitting on the throne.
00:26:47.720Are you sensing, given that you are right there in the field in Europe, that the populace is waking up, or are they still walking to the abyss of lunacy quietly and calmly?
00:26:59.460100% the European states are waking up, the European people are waking up, of course, this is the MAGA wave, of course, it has a relation with the victory of Donald Trump.
00:27:20.580We think this will happen also in Canada soon, and the Conservatives will be back in power.
00:27:41.580We have as President right now Mateusz Morawiecki, who is the former Prime Minister of Poland, who did real miracles leading the Polish people.
00:27:55.000So, we will have elections together with the Romanian elections, also in Poland, and hopefully we will have two allies of the Trump administration in Romania and in Poland, sitting as presidents of Romania and Poland of the two states.
00:28:15.380From your lips to God's ear, do you have any, I know that politically speaking, you would, I think you would support a win of the Conservatives here under Pierre Poilievre, but do you, I mean, if you probably followed the pattern of how things are going, he had something like a, I don't know, 40 point lead at one point that seemed pretty insurmountable.
00:28:35.440And now the betting markets are betting in favour of Carnie.
00:28:40.020Do you have any, I know you're not a Canadian expert in politics, but do you have a sense that the Canadian people have sufficiently wakened up to not give the Liberals a fourth mandate in a row?
00:28:55.080Hopefully we have many Canadian friends.
00:29:04.420Hopefully, hopefully, as the new Romanian president, Mr. Trump didn't help our cause too much with the proposal of Canada being the 51 state of the United States.
00:29:22.840But there are many people I know in Canada that are loving freedom and they are loving peace.
00:29:33.300So hopefully you can do the change there.
00:29:37.440We are in contact with some senators from the Conservative Party in Canada.