Hi, everybody. This is Gadsad for the Sad Truth. A rare weekend edition because I think it is a time-sensitive

issue today. I've got a leading contender for the presidency of Romania, George Simeon. How are you, sir?

Hello. As good as it gets considering we are facing an ongoing coup d'etat here in Romania.

Thanks for the invitation.

The sad truth or the sad truth.

That is the sad truth indeed.

I was, by the way, just for full disclosure,

I was contacted a few weeks ago by,

I don't know if you'd call him your mentor,

by the people of Kalin Jorgescu to come on the show. Of course, the invitation is still open to him, but maybe talk us through what happened to him and then how you found your place in

this position, which you didn't necessarily choose to be in this position.

Yes, Kalin Georgioscu is our leader, the leader of the movement, Romania first.

He was the most voted Romanian at the presidential elections we had at the end of last year.

But our establishment doesn't like him too much.

And they annulled the presidential elections.

Actually, in the first round, I also was a competitor.

I finished fourth with 14% of the votes, 1,300,000 votes.

And immediately after the first round finished, I told my voters to support Kalinjorgescu because he was the

only sovereignest left

for the second round.

We were supposed to have

the second round between

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