The Ukrainian minority in Romania chose Russia -friendly. Why? I listened to the young Remetzer waitress – DiePresse.com

I visited the Ukrainian minority of Romania because my voting behavior was puzzled: the favorite of the Romanian presidential election, the lifelong large-scale activist George Simion, wanted to stop the military support of Ukraine and had banned from the Moldaw and the Ukraine, but mostly Ukrainian villages voted in the first voting for Simion.

The polling stations closed on Sunday at 9 p.m., shortly before I arrived in Remetz, a 70 percent Ukrainian village in Maramureș. Remetz is pretty on a hill above the border river Theiß, black stone tablets with the ten commandments in Romanian and Ukrainian lead to the even higher Ukrainian Orthodox church. On May 4, 54 percent voted for Simion. Everything was clear in the café: the village youth gathered for the exit poll show switched to « Realitea Plus ». The boys spoke a juicy Ukrainian, changed in Romanian. Including the 19-year-old waitress, everyone was for Simion. I asked you smoking at the door why he chooses an « anti -tanker ». He replied: « I’m Romanian, only that I also speak Ukrainian. I feel Romanian, pay my taxes in Romania, I’m not a Ukrainian. » – « I understand, but don’t mind that Simion wants to stop arms aid for Ukraine? » – « This is exactly what he belongs to. What has Ukraine ever helped us? »

Fear of chaos and isolation

Simion was already so far back at 10.30 p.m. that the guest workers in Western Europe, who has recently chosen nationally, could no longer transport him to the presidential office. Simion’s erratic speeches and trips of the past few days had triggered such fears of chaos, isolation and investor escape that 53.6 percent preferred the pro -European rationality of the centrist mathematician Nicușor Dan. However, the Ukrainian villages in Maramureiture once again chose antucrainian with a low turnout. Simion got 62 percent in Remetz.