George Simion

George Simion
Simion in 2024
Chairman of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 December 2019 Serving with Claudiu Târziu as co-president until 27 March 2022
Preceded by	Party established
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 December 2020
Constituency	Bucharest
Preceded by	Alliance established
Vice-president of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 14 January 2025[1]
President	Mateusz Morawiecki
Personal details
Born	(1986-09-21) 21 September 1986 (age 38) Focșani, Romania
Political party	AUR (2019–present)
Spouse	Ilinca Munteanu ​ (m. 2022)​ [2]
Children	1
Alma mater	University of Bucharest Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Gheorghe Lazăr National College

George Nicolae Simion (born 21 September 1986) is a Romanian politician and civic activist. He is the chairman of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), the second largest party in both houses of parliament since 2024.

Simion studied at the Gheorghe Lazăr National College, the University of Bucharest and the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, graduating from the latter with a master's degree in history. After his studies, he began campaigning for the unification of Moldova and Romania, and has since created and organised notable associations and events for this purpose, such as Action 2012, the Alliance for the Centenary and the Centenary March, having also participated in several protests supporting Moldovans' rights. As a result, he has been prohibited from entering Moldova on several occasions in the past, and he is currently barred from entering the country as a persona non grata.

In 2019, Simion stood for office as an independent candidate in the European Parliament election in Romania, in which he obtained 117,141 votes. After this, he founded the AUR party in Septeber 2019, with himself as chairman. While the party's stated goal is the unification of the Romanian ethnicity, it has been accused of having a far-right orientation. The AUR garnered national and international attention after its unexpectedly high 9% vote share in the 2020 parliamentary election, followed by 18% in 2024.

Simion has been involved in several controversies, notably AUR's support for two former military officers who had allegedly repressed revolutionaries in the 1989 Romanian Revolution entering the Romanian Parliament or his participation in the 2019 disputes regarding the military cemetery in Valea Uzului [ro].