It is now clear that George Simion’s performance in the televised debate he had with Nicușor Dan, at Euronews, was perceived as disastrous by George Simion, AUR leaders and his campaign team.
- For those who want to watch it again or see it, the link is HERE.
In this sense, Simion’s absence from the second and third televised debates speaks for itself (it can’t be ruled out that he will run away from the following scheduled debates), after previously saying: “From this moment I am ready to start the electoral debates with my competitor Nicuşor Dan”.
More aware than ever in his life of his lack of education and his overwhelming lack of competence on numerous files, and feeling inferior to is opponent_his ego emasculated by serial blunders he committed, in short, probably and strongly mentally destabilized by all the jokes at his expense flooding social media, George Simion switched to the strategy of damage control.
A candidate who would have really respected the public and the spirit of an electoral campaign would have tried after that fiasco to be better prepared, as much as he could to improve his performance.
Of course, this isn’t a sport for everyone and it certainly isn’t a sport for George Simion. To fatten the pig on the eve of the debate you need not only supernatural effort, but also a strong foundation. However, as it is not the case with George Simion, he and those he consults with and know him well, are aware that poor George cannot do more.
Therefore, of the two possible evils – of participating in new debates and risking new bad performances, respectively that of not participating anymore and risking “only” being taxed as a coward – Simion and his people chose the second, considering it the lesser evil.
It remains to be seen after the elections whether or not this shock adaptation to “impotence” was the optimal decision.
Until then, it is worth noting that, through his fear of fighting face to face with Nicușor Dan, George Simion did more than expose his hypocrisy (given the virulence with which he had attacked in November the absence of Ciolacu and Ciucă from a televised debate) and did more than mock the expectations of the public interested in seeing both candidates in the ring.
Because through his gesture, George Simionhas attracted the attention of both Romania’s friends and enemies that he will be a weak president, easy to scare away, easy to exploit to the detriment of Romania’s interests, to the detriment of the allies and to the benefit of the enemies.
By his gesture of leaving the field of play already after the first failure, George Simion demonstrated to Romania’s friends and enemies that he does not have those exceptional but essential capacities for a head of state – to lucidly and efficiently manage situations infinitely more complex than a debate, or to seek/imagine those ways by which sensitive files that have started badly can be turned in favor of his country. or that started to go wrong.
A poorly educated, incompetent and often incoherent president, a hypocritical and unstable president, but also a president incapable of playing to the end – that’s about what Romania will get if Romanians elect George Simion on Sunday.
In a world that is increasingly harsh and complicated economically, politically, and militarily, a president that his country’s friends feel they cannot rely on, and his enemies feel they can use as a handkerchief, will be a perennial strategic vulnerability for his nation.
I don’t think there is any Romanian, American, French or Brazilian who wants a president inclined to abandonment, used to complaining about everything, almost hysterically when he is not kissed up to.
On the contrary, in the case of the modern citizen, the tradition in terms of popular expectations from the president of the country, from its prime minister and from any other politician or civil servant in the public service, is to see them working to exhaustion, to see them running even after the match is over, to see them as full-fledged people, not crying with a childish air.
For George Simion, on the other hand, his flght from debates, the pathological fear of failure and the obsession with personal victory regardless of the price, have already placed him on a collision course with all these expectations.
It was clear even before the last campaign and the current campaign that George Simion has some qualities to be head of the football supporters, but he lacks those needed to be head of state. But this campaign and especially the two weeks between the two rounds seem to have shown up the hollowness of this candidate like nothing else.
Woe to the nation that elects as its leader the most inadequate, cowardly and dangerous possible of the registered candidates!
- PS: Personally, I suspect George Simion of one more thing. And if it’s as I suspect, somehow humanly I tend to fully understand him. I suspect George Simion that after the debate on Euronews he begun to suffer terribly from the “Calin Georgescu syndrome”. Simply, Simion fears that if he continues to debate face to face with Nicușor Dan he will make so many and so profound blunders that he will become as ridiculous as Călin and Cristela Georgescu are today. And maybe, even, he fears that he will end up dethroning this golden couple of their sloppy stupidity exposed on social media. I can understand George Simion that he doesn’t want to end up like Călin & Cristela, although they are both his supporters. However, it is impossible for me to accept the fact that in today’s Romania my fellow citizens would accept en masse that the frightened Simion should be treated for this syndrome not by “medical” means, but by simply hiding his disease; in the eyes of the world…
