More than 90% of the Hungarians living in Romania voted for Nicușor Dan despite PM Orbán’s endorsement for anti-Hungarian George Simion
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More than 90% of Hungarians living in Romania voted for Nicușor Dan, despite Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s endorsement of the anti-Hungarian Romanian presidential candidate, George Simion. Orbán publicly supported Simion nine days before Sunday’s election, causing significant unrest among the Hungarian minority in Romania. Simion began his political career by inciting hostility and leading attacks against the Hungarian military cemetery in Úzvölgye alongside extremist Romanian groups, resulting in its destruction. Over the course of his ten-year political career, he has made numerous anti-Hungarian statements. Experts believe Orbán supported Simion in an attempt to secure his vote in the European Council, but the strategy backfired. Despite this, over 90% of local Hungarians voted for Nicușor Dan.
Orbán endorsed an anti-Hungarian candidate
The Hungarian community in Romania numbers over one million, accounting for 6.6% of the country’s population. In closely contested elections, their votes can be decisive, although that was not the case in last Sunday’s vote. According to Hunor Kelemen, leader of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (RMDSZ), more than 620,000 Hungarians voted for Nicușor Dan, while only a few thousand supported the far-right, anti-Hungarian candidate George Simion.
Orbán made his endorsement during a speech last Friday in Tihany, near Lake Balaton. He quoted Simion, who had said, “Now is the time for a Europe of nations, a Christian Europe, in which we will fight for our right to be European citizens.” Orbán responded, “We fully agree,” adding that Hungarians and Romanians share a historical community of fate and should support each other in defending Christianity and sovereignty.
Simion campaigned with Orbán’s support
Orbán emphasised that Hungary would oppose any form of political isolation or sanctions against Romania or its leadership. His remarks were widely interpreted as a direct endorsement of Simion, a politician well known for his anti-Hungarian rhetoric and anti-minority positions.
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Simion utilised Orbán’s endorsement in his campaign, distributing leaflets portraying the two as political allies and encouraging Hungarians in Romania to vote for him. RMDSZ leader Hunor Kelemen acknowledged that Orbán’s comments caused concern among the Hungarian minority in Romania, with many expressing disappointment. “That is out of the question; it should not be concealed,” he added.
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Orban’s advocacy for Hungarian hating Simion was a complete disaster for Fidesz relations with the Hungarian community in Transylvania. He completely discredited himself by proving that everything he says about protecting ethnic Hungarians outside of Hungary is just a show and that he will throw them under the bus if he has other interests in mind which in this case was to get a pro-Russian president in power in Romania. Orban clearly worked as a foreign agent against the interests of Hungarians in this case.
The Viktator is going to loose next year election’s for sure and by a big margin….but, I think he will try to steal the elections by counterfiting the results and if he won’t succeed he will try to do what Trump did when he lost to Biden….in any case he will not go queitly….he is a POS!
There was demonstrable French (and probably others’) interference in the Romanian election. The French intelligence service tried to get Telegram to purge Romanian conservatives from the platform. You can be 100% certain they did it on other social media as well; it’s just that we don’t know about it because those media comply with such demands quietly.
All that is O.K., though. It’s only when the result is undesirable that “iT’s rUsSIa!!!”
“Tried to get”. How does trying to get change an election? Telegram was co-founded by Russian Pavel Durov who made the accusation. Telegram has a long history as a source of Russian disinformation. Durov says he refused requests to “ban conservative voices”. The French deny the accusation. In the France24 article it is Kremlin spokesman Dimitry Peskov who accuses foreign intelligence agencies of “interference”. Ohhh. Let’s all believe the Kremlin now as the source of truth.