Far-right leader of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) party, George Simion, currently running for president of Romania, made the news[…]
The first scandal started after Simion was asked for comments by a journalist during a visit in Brussels. He refused to talk to the Romanian journalist[…]“You have a candidate you support, he’s autistic, the poor guy,” he told the journalist, implying that the press backs Nicusor Dan

Later, during a meeting with supporters in Belgium the same day, Simion apologized for using the term. The leader of the extremist AUR party said, instead, that he meant to call Dan a “Nazi,” a “Marxist,” a “Sorosist,” or a “securist,” the latter implying that his opponent has connections with the Romanian information and security services

Immediately after apologizing, George Simion made another inappropriate remark by talking about “mentally unstable people who want to legalize drugs on the streets”[…]
The term started a flurry of condemnations back in Romania[…]
Also on Thursday, George Simion gave an interview to French television channel CNews[…]
“I must tell you that France is a democracy that does not have dictatorial tendencies. If you already call your counterpart a dictator, that’s ‘promising’ for Romania’s relations with France,” said the French journalist.

Simion continued undeterred and compared France to Iran, saying that he drew “a parallel with Iran, with the ayatollahs who decide who can run.” Again, the moderator objected[…]
The AUR candidate also stated that more and more French cities are dirty and dangerous

“You’ve lost your connection with God, with your heroes, you no longer know who you are. It’s time to stop mutilating your children with sex change operations,” Simion added, to the moderator’s astonishment. “You insult many French people by talking this way,” one journalist said

Another journalist told Simion that he pretends to "criticize Putin, but you use exactly Vladimir Putin’s arguments”