Călin Georgescu is the surprise candidate who is in third place, according to the first exit polls at 21:00, contrary to expectations not even two months ago, when Georgescu did not even appear in the polls. G4Media and WHEREAS have exclusively shown how Georgescu has risen significantly in the polls in the past month after a massive promotion strategy on Tik Tok, according to data analyzed by reporters on the Chinese social network. Read the full analysis here.
- Călin Georgescu had a mystical-religious delirium after the closing of the ballot boxes: “Through the reborn candle of hope, the Romanian people chose not to be on their knees, not to be invaded, not to be humiliated anymore (…) This Sunday, The 30th after Pentecost is the parable of the rich young man”. Read the statements here.
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”.
Conform official website, he has been married since 2006 to Cristela Georgescu and has three boys. On the official page, Georgescu notes that he graduated from the High School of Mathematics and Physics in Bucharest (graduated with a grade of 8.00 in the Baccalaureate, according to the website). In the period 1981-1986 he graduated from the Faculty of Land Improvements within the Nicolae Bălcescu Agronomic Institute in Bucharest (graduated with a state exam, grade 10.00, it claims on the website).
Georgescu claims that he completed his doctorate in 1999 in pedology (soil science) at the Nicolae Bălcescu Agronomic Institute in Bucharest.
The former “prime minister” of Simion and AUR, apologist for war criminals
Călin Georgescu was visible on television when George Simion called him the AUR proposal for the position of prime minister, but he took a step back soon after, in February 2022.
Then, Georgescu became a cause of tension between George Simion and the co-president of the AUR at the time, Claudiu Târziu, after he apologized to the war criminals, calling the legionary chief Corneliu Zelea Codreanu and the author of the Romanian Holocaust “heroes” , Ion Antonescu. He also said about the assassination of Nicolae Iorga by the legionnaires that “history is mystified”. Prosecutors have opened a criminal case against him for eulogizing those guilty of genocide and war crimes, but it is not clear at what stage the investigation is.
- Georgescu often made the apology of “Russian wisdom”, and in an election debate on Digi24, Georgescu was not able to verbalize whether or not he is an admirer of Putinalthough the moderators insisted on a simple answer, with “Yes” or “No”. Georgescu became visibly irritated, commented that he receives this question too often and did not answer whether or not he admires Vladimir Putin, who is internationally indicted for war crimes in Ukraine.
After the episode in which he apologized for the war criminals, Georgescu was withdrawn from the AUR, “losing” the position of “prime minister” and being nominated as “honorary president” of the party. A month later, Georgescu announced that he had broken off talks with the extremist party (February 2022). Călin Georgescu was no longer visible in the traditional media, but he started to grow on the Chinese social network Tik Tok.
On October 1, 2024, Georgescu submitted his candidacy for the presidential elections, and it was validated by the Central Electoral Bureau, a sign that Georgescu managed to collect over 100,000 signatures from the country, but without having political structures in the territory or support, the a little obvious, of any party.
Subsequently, the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) decided, on the Wednesday before the elections, to remove all clips and online electoral materials of the independent candidate Călin Georgescu that do not contain the identification code of the financial trustee.
- G4Media and WHEREAS showed how a wave of clips appeared in the last days before the first round on TikTok with votes filmed in the voting booths in the Diaspora: A part of the Romanian electorate was filmed while applying the stamp to the candidate Călin Georgescu, the reporters identifying hundreds of such of records on the Chinese network. Read details here.
- Also in the last days before the elections, several ghost sites were showing on social networks that Georgescu had withdrawn from the presidential race: The ghost sites belonged to the propaganda network of the extremist AUR party, as a 2023 Misreport analysis shows. Details, here.
Professional career, according to the CV on the official website:
1986 – 1989 Land improvement engineer (Făgăraș, Brașov)
1991 – 1992 Advisor to the Minister of the Environment (Bucharest)
1992 – 1994 Training and specialization internships in sustainable development strategies and environmental policies, in the UK and the US
1995 – 1996 General Secretary in the Ministry of the Environment (Bucharest)
2000 – 2003 Director of the Directorate of International Economic Organizations within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Bucharest)
1996 – 2008 Project Director within the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), coordinator of Sustainable Development Plans in over 40 cities and counties in Romania (Bucharest)
2008 – 2009 National Coordinator of the National Strategy for Sustainable Development, project of the Romanian Government, under the auspices of the Romanian Academy and UNDP
1996 – 2012 Executive Director of the National Center for Sustainable Development (CNDD) (Bucharest)
2010 – 2013 UN Special Rapporteur for the adverse effects of the transport of toxic and dangerous products on the realization of human rights (Geneva) www.mae.ro/node/2647)
2013 – 2015 President of the European Research Center of the Club of Rome (Vienna)
2015 – 2016 Executive Director of the UN Institute for the Global Sustainability Index (Geneva)
2016 – 2021 Independent international environmental consultant, Baden bei Wien
2021 – present Lecturer at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Pitesti
Publications, according to the official website
- Romania 2020 (Ed. Conspress, 1998)
- Reprofessionalization of Romania (IPID, 2008)
- Romania’s chance – the people (IPID, 2009)
- Romania after the crisis. Reprofessionalization (Company Ed., 2010)
- For a common ideal (Ed. Compania, 2012)
- Cumpăna României (Ed. Logos, 2014)
- The Great Renaissance. Truth. Freedom. Sovereignty. Exiting the Matrix (Ed. Prestige, Bucharest, 2023)
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