“La nostra posizione è molto chiara. Si tratta di una guerra russa contro l’Ucraina”, afferma Simion
In un’esclusiva per Euronews ed Euronews Romania, il leader del partito AUR, che domenica ha vinto il primo turno delle elezioni presidenziali rumene, ha affermato che la Russia sta conducendo una guerra contro l’Ucraina, ma che quest’ultima deve rispettare i trattati internazionali.
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00:10I have spoken with the first runner in the Romanian presidential elections, Giorgio Simeone.
00:15He says that if he will be president, Romania will cut the help for Ukraine.
00:20He also said that if he will be president, he will appoint as his prime minister, Kallin Giorgescu,
00:27the person because of whom the former presidential elections in Romania were cancelled.
00:35Mr. Simeone, you are very close to the presidency now, and there is a crucial moment for Romania and for Europe.
00:45You've been labeled many times as anti-Ukrainian, pro-Russian, eurosceptic.
00:52Let's clear this now, and please tell me how do you calibrate your message to Europe,
00:57to its leaders, and how do you label yourself?
01:02I'm a young leader. I'm 38 years old.
01:06I'm a democrat.
01:09This is why I was opposing the annulment of the elections here in Romania.
01:15You cannot do this in an EU member state, just because you do not like who won.
01:21Now, I am a euro-realist.
01:25I'm one of the three vice presidents of ECR party, European Conservatives and Reformists,
01:32the party of Giorgia Meloni.
01:34Our president is Mateusz Morawiecki, the former law and justice prime minister in Poland.
01:39We want a Europe of Nations, and I am the person who fought the most before entering the politics with Russian propaganda.
01:52Our problems with Ukraine is not about hatred, about opposing something.
01:58It's about Ukrainians that must respect international treaties and the right of national minorities.
02:06We have half a million of Romanian speakers in Ukraine,
02:12and they don't have the right to school and to church.
02:16This is why our position towards the Russian war is very clear.
02:22It's a Russian war against Ukraine, against all international treaties,
02:29and our hope and prayers go towards a peaceful solution of the Trump administration in this region,
02:43because escalating the conflict is not the answer.
02:47You've tackled out of themes.
02:49Let's take one by one.
02:50So, anti-Ukraine, yes or not?
02:53No.
02:54Pro-Russian?
02:56Absolutely not.
02:57Eurosceptic?
02:59Euro-realist.
03:00What does it mean?
03:01It means that we do not want a super-federal state at the European level.
03:07We want a European Union that goes back to its founding fathers, to the origins,
03:13than to Adenauer and the goal, as an economic space for the free circulation of persons and merchandise.
03:23And we want more prerogatives to the 27 member states, not to unelected EU bureaucrats.
03:33Then how will you work with Mrs. von der Leyen if you are elected?
03:36I saw how our leader, Giorgia Meloni, works with Ursula von der Leyen, even if they do not share the same ideology,
03:47and even if Ursula von der Leyen made harsh statements before Italian elections,
03:53where Fratelli d'Italia won fair and square.
03:56We are winning this battle.
03:59All we are asking for is fair and free elections,
04:02and we will respect all our commitments at EU and NATO level.
04:07Then why do you label them, then, unlegitimate bureaucrats?
04:11I said unelected bureaucrats, because they are not voted by the people inside the European Union,
04:20and there are many tentatives to change the EU treaties without going to the vote of the citizens.
04:28For me, democracy is very important.
04:31This is the key aspect of the current repeated Romanian presidential elections.
04:37So I would like to go back to the people and to respect the will of the people.
04:42You know, President Trump was winning the elections in the United States,
04:51and the Supreme Court judges could have banned him, like it happens in Romania,
04:57like it happens in Iran, and in authoritarian regimes.
05:01Romania is NATO's crucial eastern flank ally, and tell me if you will be president,
05:07if you will continue the same strategy, and how will you keep Romania safe?
05:11For us, being a member of NATO is vital.
05:16We sacrificed a lot for being admitted to NATO.
05:22We invested a lot, and we spent our defense spending are quite big.
05:30So we want to be, along with Poland and the Baltic states, the eastern flank of NATO,
05:39and we want to invest more in our defense spending.
05:43We want NATO led by the United States.
05:47It's a time of massive geopolitical change in Eastern Europe,
05:52and also all over the world, and also in Europe.
05:56And now there are ongoing Trump-Putin negotiations, you have referred to that already.
06:02How will you work with Mr. Trump to South Korea, Romania?
06:06We are the natural allies of the GOP in the United States.
06:10We are perfectly aligned ideologically with the MAGA movement.
06:16So, as Giorgia Meloni does, we will work very well with the Trump administration.
06:23We have many friends.
06:25We know each other, and we will collaborate, and we will be a serious partner for the U.S.
06:30on the eastern flank of NATO.
06:33We have elections in May, on the 18th of May, both in Romania and Poland.
06:37And we hope to have two pro-MAGA presidents, both in Eucarist and in Warsaw.
06:43And in Romania, in what is?
06:46To keep all three pillars of our security strategy.
06:50One member of the European Union, second member of NATO, the strongest military alliance in the history,
06:58and three, the strategic partnership with the U.S.
07:01Can you please elaborate a little more on this?
07:05Because Mr. Trump, after he took the presidency, he had a very offensive policy.
07:13And he ruled for the economic taxes.
07:19He excluded us from visa waiver.
07:22Why do you think it's more in Romania's interest than in USA's interest to work with Trump more than with you?
07:30We want to work with all our allies.
07:34But not on the same level.
07:35One does not exclude the other.
07:39Now, the tariff war is not intended towards the EU countries mainly.
07:46It's intended to stop the Chinese domination.
07:50This is a topic for us.
07:52We must produce more in our countries, in the U.S., in Romania, in Italy.
07:56So, our idea at the ECR level, at European level, is to maintain the EU-U.S. unity, the transatlantic unity,
08:09to maintain the free world as it is.
08:13Who will you work with in the European Council mostly?
08:17Who will be your allies?
08:18We have three prime ministers that are from European conservatives and reformists.
08:25The Belgian prime minister, the Czech prime minister, Fiala, and Giorgia Meloni, the Italian prime minister.
08:32What about Putin?
08:33Because we didn't speak about him at all.
08:35If you were president, would you go to Moscow for the 9th of May or to Kiev with the other European leaders?
08:42I would go to Rome.
08:46I would go to Washington.
08:48I'm not interested for now in going to Kiev until the Ukrainians will respect the Romanian minority there.
08:57And it's excluded.
08:59It's off the table totally to go to a parade on the 9th of May in Moscow celebrating the death of our grandfathers.
09:10Please tell me, if we are part of NATO and if we will need, in the case that you are president, to further help Ukraine, what do you do?
09:24We do not have this decision at NATO level and the leader, the most important country in NATO wants to stop this war and to make peace.
09:38So we will respect...
09:39Yes, but we don't know when the peace will be.
09:41We will respect our international partnerships, everything that we obliged for, everything we signed up with UN, with NATO, with the European Union.
09:54So you will continue to help Ukraine?
09:56This is not an obligation, so far as I know, and I will not help Ukraine until Ukraine manages to respect the right of the Romanians living in the sovereign territory of Ukraine.
10:10So if you are president, you're cutting this out?
10:12Yes, I said it numerous times.
10:16The solution is a ceasefire and peace negotiation de-escalating the conflict.
10:22And we must follow the interests of the Romanian nation, not of other nations that are not part of the European Union and of NATO.
10:33And NATO is a defensive alliance.
10:36You are banned in Ukraine and Moldova.
10:38Will you change the situation?
10:39Probably after I will win on the 19th of May, these false interdictions will disappear because it is in Chisinau and Kiev's interests to work with us.
10:53I want to work with them on several topics and I want to have a good neighborhood relations.
11:03Please tell me how will you impose Mr. Georgescu as a prime minister?
11:07I will not impose, I'm not a tyrannic totalitarian leader, I'm a democrat leader.
11:15So if the Romanian people will want Mr. Georgescu at the leadership, there are several constitutional ways.
11:24Referendum, snap election, a majority in the parliament.
11:28But we will see this after I'm in the presidential seat.
11:32Last question, who will you phone first if you are elected as a president of Romania?
11:41You mean besides my wife and besides my mother, of course from the international leaders, probably the secretary of state, Marco Rubio.
