President-elect Donald Trump doesn’t back Romanian presidential candidate Calin Georgescu despite claims to the contrary from the Romanian’s camp, Bucharest’s Ambassador to Washington said Monday.
Andrei Muraru said he’d spoken to Republican and Democratic members of Congress in recent days about the political situation in Romania and he found no support for the hard-right presidential candidate in spite of claims by his team.
Georgescu and local media who support him have claimed in recent days that Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Trump’s choice to head the U.S. health department, will be in Romania this week to meet Mr. Georgescu. Mr. Muraru said the information was “false.”
Georgescu’s camp said Kennedy would be in Bucharest to launch his book on the coronavirus pandemic, with a preface written by Georgescu. Kennedy is an environmentalist and anti-vaccines.
Mr. Muraru said that nobody from the the current or future administrations”would associate with his kind of vision of politics.”
Mr. Georgescu faces centrist mayor Elena Lasconi in the runoff.
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