“I expected [Romanian Prime Minister Marcel] Ciolacu to make a move this week, to try to manipulate public opinion to get AUR out of the electoral competition,” he wrote on his website.
“You will not intimidate us, you will not stop us! As long as we have the Romanians on our side, nothing can bring us down!” he said, adding that if his political opponents wanted him in “handcuffs” they would have to win at the polls on Sunday.
Simion’s AUR party is polling at 17 percent and predicted to come second in Sunday’s EU election behind the left-wing Social Democratic Party and centre-right National Liberal Party, who have formed a coalition.
Simion has been involved in numerous political controversies, and in 2018 was banned from entering Moldova — which his party favors unifying with Romania — for five years.
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