Presidential election in Romania: Calin Georgescu, a ‘fascist’ who caused ‘an earthquake’

But who is Calin Georgescu? Before this Sunday’s breakthrough, he was largely unknown in his own country. An agricultural engineer by training, this university professor worked for the Romanian Ministry of the Environment. A technocrat who had “a serious career. He was also worked at the UN. He was a specialist in problems of food self-sufficiency and the environment. Then, he fired his cuti and became a man who defends every possible conspiracy theory imaginable“, remembers Jean-Michel De Waele.

Calin Georgescu’s CV mentions, in addition to being ultra-orthodox, that he was a member of the far-right party AUR (Alliance for the Unity of Romanians). “Yes, he was someone who was close to the Romanian far right, confirms the Central Europe specialist. But he felt that it did not go far enough. He wants to rehabilitate the Romanian fascists who collaborated with the Nazi regime. He is openly anti-Semitic. He really has no limits in his speech, in his provocations, even though the Romanian extreme right was already quite nauseating. He took another step further to the right. That’s why, really, I think we should call him a fascist. Madame Meloni or Madame Le Pen are almost respectable people compared to him.“

It is with this pedigree that Calin Georgescu is running as an independent candidate in the Romanian presidential election.