MAGA’s Romanian champion George Simion eyes comeback as government implodes – POLITICO

Hard-right firebrand George Simion lost Romania’s presidential race last year, but as the country’s centrist government coalition crumbles, he now sees an alternative route to power.  

Romania’s mainstream pro-EU parties are scrambling to keep the ultranationalist and euroskeptic Simion on the sidelines while they negotiate potential resolutions to the crisis.

But the MAGA-aligned politician is way ahead in national polls, and insists it’s time his party had a shot at governing the EU’s sixth most populous country — home to what is set to be NATO ‘s biggest airbase, on the Black Sea.