Romania Bars Anti-UN Presidential Front-runner Călin Georgescu, Violence Erupts

AP ImagesPro-Georgescu protesters in Romania

Violent protests erupted in Romania on Sunday after front-runner Călin Georgescu was banned from running for president.

On Monday, Romania’s Constitutional Court upheld the Central Electoral Bureau’s decision to bar Georgescu, terminating his candidacy for good.

After the decision, Georgescu posted to X account (this is a translation):

March 11, 2025 – Today, the masters decided: no equality, no freedom, no fraternity for Romanians. Long live France and Brussels, Long live their colony called Romania!

While America becomes great again, Europe and Romania – under dictatorship, have become small and corrupt. Our indifference and that of our partners will be paid for with the souls of these people crushed in these moments.

But I assure you that things will not remain like this! The evil of the system will not win, their evil will not defeat us! We are the people! We are Romania! Thank you.

Georgescu surprised the world when he won the first round of the presidential election in November. But his victory was short-lived, as authorities quickly moved to annul it. Romania’s Constitutional Court accused him of “incitement to actions against the constitutional order,” supporting fascist groups, and false declarations of electoral campaign funding and asset disclosures. The main allegation against Georgescu was that his victory was the result of Russian election interference. Before the November 24 election, Georgescu had polled in the single digits and declared zero campaign spending. Moscow has denied meddling in that election.

What Next?

Romania’s conservatives may seek to replace Georgescu with another candidate. The deadline to replace him is March 15. A likely candidate is his political ally, George Simion, the leader of the Alliance for the Unity of Romanians (AUR).

Simion told the Associated Press on Tuesday:

We will decide tonight what is happening next because we are facing a huge blow against democracy and the rule of law. There is no democracy in Romania. I hope we will restore it.

Simion recently gave an interview to The New American‘s Senior Editor Alex Newman, during which he described what is happening in Romania as a “Bolshevik terrorist maneuver.” He said the country is going through a coup. “The globalists don’t want to give up power even though the people do not support them,” Simion said. When asked why there is so much opposition to Georgescu, the potential candidate said it’s because he wants peace, he doesn’t support the Russia-Ukraine war, opposes Agenda 2030, and is simply not a globalist.

European Oligarchy

Georgescu is a former United Nations official who also served as the president of the European Research Centre for the Club of Rome. Yet despite his globalist credentials, everything he publicly says flies in the face of internationalism. His views, if genuine and accurate, would indeed threaten the globalists.

Georgescu believes an oligarchy controls Europe. He also believes that oligarchy is involved in pedophilia. Moreover, he said during an interview in November, Donald Trump’s unexpected 2016 victory pushed the globalists’ pandemic plan up five years. According to him, the Covid “pandemic” was supposed to happen in 2025.

UN Warmongering

During an hour-long interview in January with American podcaster Shawn Ryan, Georgescu voiced very nationalistic sentiments. He implied the UN is not interested in fostering peace as it claims, and that it creates war. He rhetorically asked, if the UN were truly a peace-promoting organization, why weren’t there representatives in Kiev and Moscow working day and night to end the conflict? And why are there so many wars everywhere?

Georgescu also said didn’t care what happened between Ukraine and Russia, only what happens to Romania. His country, he said, is very rich. It has coal, oil, gas, and great potential for hydraulic power. But it’s a matter of those resources being used to their full potential by the Romanian people for the benefit of the Romanian people.

In addition to his sharp criticism of the UN, Georgescu’s view on NATO would pose a great threat to the globalists were he to become president. He has pointed out that NATO was created as a defensive entity against an aggressive Soviet Union, yet has morphed into an offensive entity.

As it just so happens, NATO is working to upgrade its base in Mihail Kogqlniceanu, Constanta, southeast Romania, on the Black Sea coast, into its largest in Europe. And if NATO’s reason for bulking up its base in Romania is to attack Russia, which he suspects is the case, that would be unacceptable if he were the president.

“Far Right” Figure

Western media labels Georgescu as “far-right” figure, and one who is a sympathizer of Russian president Vladimir Putin. Given his stances, it makes sense why the Russians would prefer him as president of a nation only 600 miles from their border. Georgescu, for his part, has denied any ties to Russia or Putin.  

Romania’s election has not gone unnoticed by U.S. officials. During his scolding of Europe’s soft tyrants at the Munich Security Conference on February 14, Vice President J.D. Vance said this about the Georgescu saga:

This December, Romania straight up cancelled the results of a presidential election based on the flimsy suspicions of an intelligence agency and enormous pressure from its continental neighbors. You can believe it’s wrong for Russia to buy social media advertisements to influence your elections…. But if your democracy can be destroyed with a few hundred thousand dollars of digital advertising from a foreign country, then it wasn’t very strong to begin with.

How Will Romanians React?

The world is watching how Romanians respond to the final decision. The sentiment that the former Soviet vassal state is once again under dictatorial rule is becoming widespread.

On Sunday, people took to the streets of the capitol, Bucharest. Romanians have held multiple protests over the Georgescu ban since November. But Sunday was the first time they turned violent. People overturned cars, clashed with police, broke through police barricades, and burned property.  

Romania is only about three decades removed from one of the most violent revolutions in recent history in that part of the world. In 1989, while Eastern Europe experienced a mostly peaceful transition from full-blown communism to pseudo democracy, Romania went through a full-blown violent revolution. The people eventually captured dicator Nicolae Ceaușescu, ran he and his wife through a mock trial, and executed the couple by firing squad on Christmas Day. The rule of Ceaușescu’s dictatorship is still fresh in the minds of many.