site.btaAfter Meeting with Georgescu, George Simion and Anamaria Gavrila Announce Presidential Bids

The leaders of the two Romanian far-right parties, Alliance for the Union of Romanians and the Youth Party, George Simion and Anamaria Gavrila, will run for the presidential elections in May. They announced the news in a video published on their official Facebook profiles after meeting with former presidential candidate Calin Georgescu Tuesday morning. If both bids are validated, one of them will withdraw, as stated in the video.

“We, as young people, will continue this sovereigntist movement with the approval of Mr. Calin Georgescu and will take the necessary steps forward. We must give every chance to this sovereigntist movement. Be with us, without you we cannot [succeed]. We only represent what you are and live,” called George Simion and Anamaria Gavrila.

The deadline for submitting the bids for the May elections is March 15. By then, each of them must collect 200,000 signatures.

Tuesday night, after the final decision of the Constitutional Court to reject Calin Georgescu's candidacy for the presidential elections in May, George Simion stated that he would not run in the presidential elections but added that he would do whatever Georgescu tells him.