Wave of departures from AUR. The candidate for mayor of a big city withdrew along with 18 of the 29 candidates. “The biggest poison for the Romanian electorate”

The AUR candidate for the Buzău City Hall, Elena Năstăsoiu, announced, on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, 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 Buzău Local Council withdrew their candidacies, writes News.ro.

Elena Năstăsoiu 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.

On the way out, Elena Năstăsoiu made a series of statements in which she accuses the party leadership of interference in the municipal organization of AUR Buzău and of the fact that 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 Buzău City Hall, the Local Council and from the AUR European Parliament. Lately, in AUR Buzău, reprehensible things have happened 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 Buzău 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 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 Buzău, promising me that they would not interfere in the life of the local organization if it tried electorally and politically. And yes, I tried because I took over the organization with 29 members last year, in March 2023 and today we are around 200 dues 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 City Council and the County Council”, said Elena Năstăsiu.

We had people put on lists

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 the injustice, the lies and the habit of the 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, is announcing a new campaign for children. Don’t forget, George Simion, that displayed patriotism is an indecency!”, said the former AUR candidate for Buzau City Hall.

Also, Năstăsoiu also conveyed that AUR is now “the biggest poison for the Romanian electorate” and that loyal people are 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 positions if you work, sacrifice and give. That’s why 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 is becoming more and more clear why the AUR refuses the constitution, statutory, moreover, of local and county organizations”, said professor Năstăsoiu.

Tuesday evening, along with Elena Năstăsoiu, 18 of the 29 people on the list of local councilors withdrew their candidacies.

Other departures in the last few days

A few days ago, Mihail Dojană, who coordinated the AUR campaign in Sector 1, announced that he was leaving the formation because it is not people who matter in the party, but the personal interests of some people he does not name. It was the second departure in recent days, after that of Valentin Florea who was supposed to be the candidate for the District 6 City Hall.