Simion is the right-wing candidate and won the first round of voting in a rerun of the elections, with 41% of the vote. The election is repeated, Simion said, because of the "democratic crisis caused by the globalists in Brussels."
"Here in my country," he said, "in Romania, I am the frontrunner. We are winning by a landslide in these elections, and the only thing that can stop us is some people interfering with the voting process.
"I won the first round with 41% of the ballots against 21% of the mayor of Bucharest, a pro-LGBT guy who had a platform saying, 'we are basically giving money to Ukraine in order to assure that Romania remains safe.'" That opponent, he said, is "a globalist puppet" who is backed by French President Emmanuel Macron and EU President Ursula van der Leyen.
"We don't believe in this," Simion went on. "We don't believe in escalating anywhere. We believe in our strategic partnership with the US, with our American friends." At the front of Simion's plans for Romania are sovereignty and giving power to the people. "And it's about the rule of law. They always used this phrase, the rule of law, the constitutional order. We are fighting for the constitutional order. This meaning the power of the people to vote and not to be humiliated like they were in December 2024."
Posobiec recounted that these are the same forces that attempted to stop President Donald Trump from again attaining the Oval Office. "And I certainly pray that the Romanian people also see through the corruption that's going on here, so that they can have a truly free country and a free and fair election," he said.
Simion said, "we have 3 million dead people on the voting list because in total, the population of Romania is 19 million, last census in 2021. And they are saying, the authorities, the electoral authorities, they are saying we have on the list 18 million people. So the voting age is 18 years old."
"So you must have no children," Posobiec asked sarcastically.
"Yeah, no, actually, we have 3,500,000 children, so—" Simion said.
"The numbers don't work," Posobiec said.
"Not at all. There's a big difference, consisting we just discovered it through mailing letters. We had this list," Simion said, describing how they pulled the voter rolls to find out which voters were real and which had passed on. "We sent letters, personalized letter to each voter, especially to the elder voters, and their families contacted us.
"'How do you have our contacts in the electoral list?'" He quoted a constituent saying, "'I told them to delete it. My father died, has died 20 years ago.'
"So the only chance for them is manipulating the votes through the state for their methods of intimidating people. We just received the text in the commercial break from an entrepreneur that they gathered all the entrepreneurs and told them to use fear and to tell the employees to vote against Simion, because they will be fired if they will not vote against against Simion. And the way they will proceed is to have this time the dead people rising from the dead and voting. This is our biggest concern for electoral integrity next Sunday."
"I think there's a famous novel about the dead rising in Transylvania. Dracula has come back and now he's voting, he's voting democrat," Posobiec joked.
Simion said that there are 40,000 people at voting stations to prevent fraud from happening during next Sunday's election.
