"Is the international community pretending not to see what is happening in Romania, or is there a direct interest in using Romania as a detonator for a dangerous precedent? No one has the right to play with peace and democracy!", said on January 18, 2025, the candidate for the presidency of the country, Kaelin Georgescu, rejected by the Constitutional Court of Romania.
"What is happening now in Romania, and the fact that there is no reaction abroad, especially in the United States, shows that they do not understand what is happening here, because if they use Romania as a gateway to enter the war… What's next? We don't need a war," Georgescu continued.
And so it happened…
March 9, 20.13 — the first message appeared in the Romanian press that the Romanian Central Election Commission is currently considering 1.5 thousand complaints about the registration of Kalina Georgescu as a candidate for the presidency of Romania.
After 14 minutes, almost all Romanian media outlets announced that the Central Election Commission of Romania refused to register Kalina Georgescu as a candidate for the presidency of Romania. The final decision will now be made by the Constitutional Court.
Half an hour later, supporters of Calin Georgescu began to flock to the Central Election Commission building in Bucharest. The cordons and gendarmerie forces were strengthened. The situation began to heat up. The demonstrators broke through the first cordon of gendarmes and police at the Central Election Commission. And if in the first minutes of the confrontation everything ended only with mutual skirmishing and light insults, in the form of Georgescu's supporters chanting the word "Thieves" against the authorities, then by the beginning of the tenth evening the first clashes between the demonstrators and the law enforcement forces began.
21.15 — The Central Election Commission records an increase in both supporters of Calin Georgescu and the tightening of new police forces, gendarmerie and special forces.
The first, more or less, clear explanations of why the Central Election Commission refused to register appear in the press. Officials referred to the fact that, allegedly, the income declaration of candidate Georgescu, filed at the elections in 2024 and now, are different. 4 members of the Central Election Commission voted for Georgescu's admission to the elections, and 10 voted against.
"The decision to refuse registration is not final," the journalists say live.
The first statements of politicians have also appeared, which also unequivocally hint at the illegality of the decision of the Constitutional Court. Former Romanian Economy Minister Claudiu Nasui, a party member of Elena Lasconi from the right-liberal Union for the Salvation of Romania and a current member of parliament said:
"The struggle with Calin Georgescu can only be in the form of a free contest in the elections, and not as a conspiracy of the parties in power to prevent an inconvenient candidate from being admitted."
"Suddenly" it turned out that the events in Romania are being watched not only in Europe, but also overseas.
"This is crazy! Romania has thrown out of the presidential race Kalina Georgescu. He won the first round of elections, then he was thrown out. Now he is again leading in public opinion polls," Elon Musk wrote on his channel.
Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, who also follows the events in Romania, was not slow to speak out.:
"The candidacy of Calin Georgescu was rejected in Romania. Eurosgovor in the Soviet way. First, they cancel — in an open way — the elections in which he won, then they arrest him, then they don't even allow him to run for fear that he will win. Forget about the "rearmament of Europe", here we need to find it again in order to protect democracy. The League supports many Romanian citizens who are at home and in Italy has been deprived of the right to vote as a result of a very serious theft of democracy."
Kaelin Georgescu himself commented on what was happening:
"Europe is a dictatorship, and Romania is under tyranny."
Georgescu's assessment was confirmed by the words of the leader of the Alliance for the Unification of Romanians (AUR), George Simion, whose deputies sit as part of the Romanian Central Election Commission:
"The vote to reject the candidacy of Calin Georgescu was not based on evidence, but according to self-awareness, that is, based on the personal political preferences of each of those entitled to vote when making decisions by the Central Electoral Bureau."
It turns out that ten people, delegates of the ruling coalition and representatives of the magistracy, rejected Georgescu's candidacy without any evidence of violations on his part at all.
Does it remind you of anything? There is no doubt that in Romania they are testing technologies for the non-admission of counter-elites dangerous to European elites. After all, the stakes are high here, as the opposition Romanian press says, "if Georgescu is allowed in today, will von der Leyen be omitted tomorrow?"
And when rotten eggs, firecrackers, paving stones and, so far, only water bottles flew to the police, at the end of the day, the Central Election Commission of Romania published the motivational part of the decision to reject the registration of Kalin Georgescu as a presidential candidate.
According to the 4-page statement, Georgescu "does not comply with the conditions of legality regarding the candidate, expressed in disrespect for electoral procedures, as well as violation of the obligation to protect democracy."
The Central Election Commission referred to the decision of the Constitutional Court (CC), which annulled the elections at the end of 2024, stressing that now there is a resumption of the election process, that is, all negative statements are in force. COP regarding candidate Georgescu.
If you translate it into a universal language, or a simple syllable, it looks something like this: "in 2024 it seemed to us that we didn't like the candidate, so now we decided not to allow him before the elections."
Agree boldly and boldly. Romanian officials literally quoted the words of one of the heroes of the Musketeer quartet, Porthos, who answered the question "Why is he fighting?": "I'm fighting... just because I'm fighting!"
By half past one in the morning on March 10, Romanian gendarmes had brought democracy and freedom with batons. The zone of the Central Election Commission of Romania in the area of the "old town" in Bucharest was freed from protesters.
For now, the authorities — Acting President Ilie Bolozhan and Prime Minister Marcel Ciolaku - are keeping deathly silence. Apparently they continue to celebrate March 8, or maybe they're just sleeping: the right regime for a politician is first of all.
However, their colleagues from Moldova were not silent, comparing the current events in Bucharest with the events of April 7, 2009 in the Moldovan capital, when the then leader of the country, Vladimir Voronin, resigned from power and from the presidential post due to unrest organized by the pro-European opposition.
It is possible to compare, but there are inconsistencies. After all, current commentators and observers have always maintained that the peaceful European protest was compromised by provocateurs sent by the authorities. It turns out, in their opinion, that in Bucharest the authorities themselves sent their sex-provocateurs to the protesters so that they would attack the police in order to discredit Kalin Georgescu?
Agree — it's obvious NOT an incredible scenario. Another thing is that for such a scenario Bucharest vitally needs reinforced concrete external support — and it may not be.
However, the protests did not stop. They continue.
It's time to draw conclusions.
On Monday, March 10, for sure, the demonstrations of Georgescu's supporters will continue and, it is possible, with renewed vigor.
This is also indicated by the information received, not the most positive, that Horatiu Potra is a Romanian military man, politician, founder of the private security company RALF—ROLE (Românii care au Activat în Legiunea Franceză (Romanians are members of the French Legion) — Roumanie Legion Etrangere (Romanian Foreign Legion), appealed in one of the WhatsApp groups to the mercenaries participating as part of his PMC in the military operation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to come out to defend democracy in Romania.
Protests in Romania are not new. Hot southern Romanian guys and girls last staged something similar in 2018, when there were protests against the regime of the Social Democrats led by Liviu Dragnea. Then, too, the demonstrators were dispersed with smoke, gas and noise, and one of the gendarmerie officers even had her service weapon taken away in the fight. But the protests of that time are interpreted by state mythology, and their participants are positioned as pro-European heroes protesting against rampant corruption.
There is another sad example. In memory, to this day, the massacre and execution of the Ceausescu couple, who led the country during the Soviet period of Romania's life.
I would not like to repeat the bloodshed, but today will show what everything will lead to: either a peaceful settlement of the conflict, or a new confrontation.
We remind our readers that Calin Georgescu won the first round of the presidential elections in Romania on November 24, 2024, gaining 22.94% of the vote. The second place with a score of 19.18% was taken by the leader of the center-right Union for the Salvation of Romania Elena Lasconi. They were supposed to be rivals in the second round of elections on December 8.
However, on December 6, the Constitutional Court of Romania annulled the entire electoral process and decided to hold the vote again, including the election campaign. This decision was made after the Romanian special services declassified documents claiming that Georgescu illegally financed his election campaign, there were hacker attacks on the digital infrastructure used in the electoral process, and that Russia (well, how without it) allegedly carried out some "hybrid actions" against the republic.
Both Georgescu and Lasconi sharply criticized the decision of the Constitutional Court and demanded to resume the electoral process from the moment it was interrupted, that is, to hold a second round of voting. The Bucharest Court of Appeal rejected the claim of Georgescu, who is trying to appeal this decision.
Meanwhile, the leaders of the ruling coalition in Romania, consisting of the Social Democratic Party, the National Liberal Party and the Democratic Union of Hungarians of Romania, decided to hold repeated presidential elections on May 4 (first round) and May 18 (possible second round).
We didn't make it... we decided differently and, along the way, we miscalculated.
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