Presidential candidate of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) George Simion, back on Monday at a footwear factory in Alba Iulia, where he was also present last week during the election campaign, told employees that he would not disappoint them and that he would put Calin Georgescu at the helm of the country.

Simion, who won on Sunday in Alba county with 43.45%, was greeted with cheers by hundreds of employees, mostly women, gathered in the courtyard of the factory, who congratulated him, wished him success in the future, addressing him with „Long live Mr. President”.

„I came to tell you that we thank you from the bottom of my heart for going to the polls and I wanted to come after the vote, too, not just before the vote. What you are doing here means a lot for Romania. We will stand by your side, in your ranks, so that ordinary Romanians win, not parliamentarians and not those who have plundered Romania for 30 years,” Simion told the workers.

He was asked what exactly he will do for the people. „We won’t disappoint you, we won’t betray you, we will put Calin [Georgescu, editor’s note] at the helm of the country and for your employers, for those who pay your wages, we must reduce taxes (…) so that you will have more money in your pockets, so that you can raise your children here in our country,” replied George Simion.

Present last week at this factory, owned by an Italian company, George Simion was told by some of the workers to take „Calin” next to him and to free Romanians „out of slavery”.

AGERPRES