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With just days off the Romanian presidential election, George Simion is reaching out to Hungarian communities in Romania and Viktor Orban, leading to furious backlash from Hungarians.

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Viktor Orban ‘endorsing’ Simion https://x.com/PM_ViktorOrban/status/1920836788798566711?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1920836788798566711%7Ctwgr%5Ec97a1b47d07bec368a77017eb1e067442f876bc1%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcms.tvp.pl%2Flisting%2F86679670

Hungarian diaspora https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_diaspora

Romanian General Election Results https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_Romanian_general_election https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Romanian_general_election https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Romanian_general_election

Romanian far-right/nationalist parties post communist transition Still on the Fringes? Far-Right Parties and Identity in Romania By Sergiu Gherghina: https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1640388/FULLTEXT01.pd#page=128

AUR’s 2019 manifesto https://partidulaur.ro/program/ https://adevarul.ro/politica/care-este-programul-politic-al-aur-partid-2063855.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Romanian_parliamentary_election

2019 WW1 cemetery incident https://www.euronews.com/2019/06/07/romanian-crowd-break-into-austro-hungarian-world-war-i-graveyard https://maszol.ro/belfold/Uzvolgye-Georges-Simion-a-jogtalanul-felallitott-roman-katonakeresztek-vedelmere-szolitott-fel https://transylvanianow.com/RMDSZ-ends-support-of-romanian-govt-over-graveyard-issue/

Viktor Orban ‘revisionist’ views https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63724710

Conflict between FIDESZ and AUR https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/romanias-far-right-threatens-to-pull-out-of-ecr-group-in-new-blow-to-orban/ https://x.com/zoltanspox/status/1803516317359587429?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1803516317359587429%7Ctwgr%5E7643b2ca9bef2d1787fb71ef2b336310f88afd80%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theamericanconservative.com%2Ffidesz-rules-out-joining-ecr-due-to-romanian-nationalists%2F

Simion’s praise of Orban (Euronews) https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/05/08/george-simion-tells-euronews-ill-follow-in-orbans-footsteps-hungarians-will-be-our-partner

Hungarian minority support for Georgescu https://transtelex.ro/kozelet/2024/12/11/georgescut-tamogato-magyarok-korkep https://balkaninsight.com/2025/01/09/in-romania-signs-of-far-right-values-overriding-ethnic-loyalty/

UDMR supporting Dan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxqYdYkO-kY

Orban retracting support for Simion https://www.intellinews.com/orban-backs-away-from-far-right-romanian-presidential-candidate-simion-380525/?source=romania

00:00 - Introduction 01:12 - Context 03:29 - Rise of Simion and AUR 04:33 - Simon's Pivot to Orban 06:30 - Simion's Fallout with Orban 08:01 - Sponsored Content