AUR, the day and the resignation: the party’s candidate for Buzau City Hall withdrew from the race: “AUR is the biggest poison for the Romanian electorate!” – VIDEOS

After last week two of the AUR candidates from Bucharest resigned from the party, one of them saying about George Simion that he is “garbage”, the departures continue.

Last night, AUR candidate for Buzau City Hall, Elena Nastasoiu, announced on her Facebook page that she withdrew from the electoral race, accusing “reprehensible facts that raise many question marks”. Along with her, 18 of the 29 candidates for the Buzau Local Council withdrew their candidacies, reports News.ro.

Elena Nastasoiu arrived at the headquarters of the Municipal Electoral Office at 11:50 a.m., 10 minutes before the deadline for submitting candidacies and withdrew from all electoral races. At the exit, Elena Nastasoiu made a series of statements in which she accused the party leadership of interference in the municipal organization of AUR Buzau and of the fact that the compilation of the lists of candidates for the Local Council and the County Council intervened.

“I decided to withdraw from the AUR, as a candidate for the Buzau City Hall, the Local Council and from the AUR European Parliament. Lately, in AUR Buzau, reprehensible acts have taken place that raise many question marks. For more than a year, I have been leading a team of people who, through work, dedication and involvement, have shown Buzaului that AUR can be a viable alternative, but an alternative supported by these people who have tried professionally, personally and socially. I consciously chose to sacrifice the time dedicated to my child, my heart, my health and my money. A lot of money. For the AUR cause, a cause that I thought was for the Romanians and Romania, but I was wrong.

I joined AUR out of patriotism, which can be proven by the fact that in 2020, when I was asked to run for Parliament, I refused. The AUR central management asked me to lead the AUR in the municipality of Buzau, promising me that they will not interfere in the life of the local organization if it tries electorally and politically. And yes, I tried because I took over the organization with 29 members last year, in March 2023, and today we have around 200 paying members and thousands of sympathizers and supporters. After a titanic work, in which we showed the strength of the AUR municipal team, the county leadership, supported by the central one from Bucharest, trampled on our proposals for the Local Council and the County Council”, said Elena Nastasiu.

She claims that nothing that was discussed with the party leadership was respected.

“The announced criteria were very pompous, but nothing was respected. No meritocracy, no transparency, no devotion, no involvement. People were put on our list who were not seen in our actions. I thought that proportional to our work, dedication and results, we will have people on the list of the County Council. There was no such thing. As a leader, I cannot move forward without the people who made the municipal organization perform. I cannot accept humiliation and disrespect.

I have a moral duty to cry out against injustice, lies and the habit of AUR decision-makers to use people. People don’t matter, it seems. Only their petty interests of those running AUR matter. I am not afraid to raise my voice for honesty and truth. I see that the president of AUR, George Simion, announces a new campaign for children. Don’t forget, George Simion, that displayed patriotism is an indecency!”, said the former AUR candidate for the Buzau City Hall.

Nastasoiu also conveyed that AUR is now “the biggest poison for the Romanian electorate” and that loyal people are being pushed aside, being replaced by those from other parties and the financially powerful.

“AUR, as it is now, is the biggest poison for the Romanian electorate, because it is a real machine for manufacturing lies and vain hopes. Everyone is promised jobs if you work, sacrifice and give. That’s why the good people worked, sacrificed and gave and were marginalized, because the AUR call was for the financially powerful and for those from other parties. And loyal people are cast aside. Now it becomes more and more clear why AUR refuses the constitution, statutory, moreover, of local and county organizations”, said Nastasoiu.