The choice of a significant part of young voters was Călin Georgescu, the surprise candidate who is in first place, after counting about 70% of the votes.
But what is the motivation of some of the young people who chose this option? Here is what several college colleagues who were attracted to Georgescu’s speech told me on Tiktok:
- “He knows English well”
- “He has a performance, he knows how to talk, he seems sincere”
- “I didn’t know anyone. I voted for what I thought was the most real”
- “Lasconi is evil, it seems she is lying and getting us into war”
- “Anything, but not Ciolacu”
- “He didn’t use bots on social platforms, a lot of people vote for him”
- “I also looked on YouTube, not just TikTok”
- “It seems to me that they are stealing votes. My TikTok was full of Georgescu”
- “Why should Ukraine help another candidate?”
- “Because it seemed the most appropriate”
Călin Georgescu has a strong anti-Semitic, legionary, “messianic”, pro-Russian and anti-Western speech. He was born on March 26, 1962, claims that he comes from a family of priests and declares in the podcasts in which he participated in the campaign that “he is not a candidate”, but that “he is at the level of a calling, one for all and all of us with God”.
According to the testimonies of the respective young people, the clips with Călin Georgescu were among the most frequently seen on TikTok by them. In some cases, it was chosen in the last hundred meters.
Georgescu rose significantly in the polls after a massive promotion strategy on Tik Tok, according to data analyzed by G4Media and South East Info on the Chinese social network, a platform that was the number one promotion space for former Prime Minister AUR.
