Vehicled throughout the day even as a possible finalist of the December 8 presidential elections, the independent Călin Georgescu ranked 3rd, according to the first exit-poll results, a short distance from Elena Lasconi and in front of George Simion.
Exit poll results presidential election 2024 Avangarde. Dates valid at 19.00:
Marcel Ciolacu – 25%%
Elena Lasconi – 18%
Călin Georgescu – 16%
George Simion – 15%
Nicolae Ciucă – 14%
Mircea Geoana – 5%
CURS exit-poll results at 20.00
Marcel Ciolacu – 25%
Elena Lasconi – 18.10%
Călin Georgescu – 16%
George Simion – 14.10%
Nicolae Ciucă – 13%
Mircea Geoana – 5.50%
Călin Georgescu has grown strongly in the polls in recent weeks. He had even reached 10 percent in some studies, surpassing another independent, great favorite, Mircea Geoană.
Georgescu had a strong campaign on TikTok, where many of his videos went viral. The BEC decided a few days ago that they should be deleted because they did not have the mandatory election mark/code.
Călin Georgescu was born on March 26, 1962 in Bucharest and completed his higher studies at the University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine in Bucharest, majoring in Land Improvement, after which he obtained a doctorate in Pedology at the same university. He also graduated from the “National Security and Defense – Geopolitics and Geostrategy” postgraduate program of the “Carol I” National Defense College.
Senior official in two ministries
He started his professional career in the graduated specialty, so that in 1991 he became an adviser to the Minister of the Environment Marcian Bleahu, in the cabinet led by Theodor Stolojan. In the same ministry, he held the position of general secretary during 1997-1998. Between 2000 and 2011 he was executive director of the National Center for Sustainable Development. He was the coordinator of the teams that developed the 1999 and 2008 versions of the National Sustainable Development Strategy.
In 2004-2005 he was a director in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and in the period 2006-2012 he held the position of executive director at the Institute of Projects for Innovation and Development.
AUR’s candidate for prime minister
His name was on the list of potential premiers in 2011 and 2012 as a replacement for Emil Boc, whose popularity was declining after the measures taken during the economic crisis of 2009-2010. At that time, Georgescu said that he was not interested in the head of the Government.
After the 2020 elections, when the AUR managed to enter the Parliament, George Simion’s party proposed Călin Georgescu as a candidate for the position of prime minister. Dorin Lulea, the current first vice-president of AUR, specified at the time that Georgescu was not a member of the party, being appointed as a result of his expertise in sustainable development. Georgescu was AUR’s candidate for the position of prime minister during the political crisis generated by the fall of the Cîțu government, in October 2021.
Controversial statements and the breakout of AUR
At the beginning of 2022, George Simion announced that Georgescu could become honorary president of AUR, but things took an unexpected turn following an interview that the current candidate gave to Antena 3 on January 31, 2022. Then he was asked for an explanation regarding a statement from the previous year, in which Corneliu Zelea Codreau and Ion Antonescu were mentioned as “heroes” of the Romanians: “The Romanian nation (…) he lived through Ştefan cel Mare, Mihai VIteazu, Horia, Avram Iancu, Kogălniceanu, Cuza, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Marshal Ion Antonescu and many, many other heroes”.
Asked if this statement would not lead to his isolation in Romanian politics, Călin Georgescu answered: “All of them have done good deeds and others less good, but in general an authentic leader is the one who tells the truth and if you don’t tell the truth you know how to be a leader (…) There were good deeds and deeds that I cannot comment on, but historians must prove this and it is their job, not ours. Regarding the martyrs, I cannot have opinions, but I can say, I repeat, that they are from our history.”
Moreover, Georgescu said that “Zelea Codreanu fought for the morality of the human being”, and when he was reminded that the legionnaires assassinated Armand Călinescu and Nicolae Iorga, he replied: “When history is mystified, you don’t have what to discuss”.
Following these statements, the General Prosecutor’s Office ordered the opening of a criminal case, based on the provisions of GEO 31/2002 which, in Article 5, defines as a crime “the act of the person to promote, in public, the cult of persons guilty of crimes of genocide against humanity and war crimes, as well as the act of promoting, in public, fascist, legionary, racist or xenophobic ideas, concepts or doctrines.”
The interview also caused irritation at the top of AUR. “If he does not clearly clarify his ideology and if he does not clearly demarcate himself from any past movement that AUR has nothing to do with, he must go,” said George Simion on Antena 3, on February 8, 2022.
So the AUR leaders gave up the idea of proposing in Congress the designation of Călin Georgescu as honorary president, and he distanced himself from the party that until then had twice proposed him as a candidate for the position of prime minister.
Attitudes against NATO
Incidentally, these are not the only controversial statements made by the independent candidate for the presidency in 2024. G4Media published, also in February 2022, statements made by Georgescu in an interview in May 2021, which concerned Romania’s defense policy and membership of NATO.
“The Deveselu shield is a diplomatic shame. The shield has nothing to do with defense. On the contrary, it dragged us into a conflict that we didn’t need. The shield as such is part of the politics of confrontation. The shield is not a matter of peace, as it is presented by those who kicked the cannon at various gates”, said Georgescu.
In addition, he claimed that Romania’s membership in NATO does not provide the security guarantees that the country needs. We have outsourced responsibility, actions and decisions in national security and defense of the country. “We no longer represent anything externally, zero. All the so-called government programs for 30 years have been nothing more than a private shopping list, it’s scorchery. Not a single country from the NATO bloc that, in the event that it is attacked by Russia, I assure you that NATO will not take its defense”, argued Georgescu.
Călin Georgescu has a child from his marriage with Cristela Georgescu, who, on his personal website, describes himself as an “author and naturopathic educator, with 20 years of direct personal experience in the field of natural health with the help of integrative nutrition, apiphytotherapy, gemotherapy, regenerative detoxification , clinical iridology, bioresonance and emotional release techniques.”
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