Romania's radical right leader Simion, a Trump fan, sets eyes on presidency


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  • Friday, 22 Nov 2024

FILE PHOTO: Presidential candidate George Simion answers a question during a presidential debate in Bucharest, Romania, November 18, 2024. Inquam Photos/Octav Ganea via REUTERS/File Photo

BUCHAREST (Reuters) - George Simion, Romania's youngest presidential candidate, admires U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and would stop military aid to Ukraine, while his vocal anti-Brussels rhetoric chimes with that of Hungary's Viktor Orban.

Simion, who opposes Holocaust education and gay marriage, and wants to reunite Romania with its pre-World War Two territories, leads the hard-right Alliance for Uniting Romanians party and could make it to the run-off in a presidential election that starts on Sunday.

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