The recent events in Romania, i.e. the annulment of the presidential elections on the grounds that the candidate who managed to obtain a majority was not the right one, the recent talks on the formation of a new government and the intoxication at the highest level with ‘Russian interference’ in the electoral campaign and elections have perfectly outlined a sad reality.
They basically showed that we have 2 Romanias: one theirs and one ours. One of the people at the helm, capable of anything to stay in power, and the other of those at their mercy.
Just how much we are in their hands was shown by the vote that propelled… Călin Georgescu, a candidate about whom little was known and obviously ignored by everyone, to the top of the list.
But the vote for Georgescu was definitely an unpleasant surprise for journalists who are subscribers to public money, for politicians and for part of the population.
But the majority has decided that this is no longer acceptable, that the same people who have been in power for more than three decades can no longer be voted in.
ROMANIA’S POLITICAL CLASS IS DOING ALL IT CAN
The voice of the Romanian people, expressed at the polls, seems not to matter to the Romanian political class. With the help of home-grown TV stations, paid with public money (according to a snoop.ro investigation, PNL, PSD and AUR paid tens or hundreds of thousands of euros for a single broadcast on Romanian TV stations during the election campaign for the Europarliamentary elections), the Romanian political class continues to continue to make alliances, to propose candidates for the presidency – old guard, “checked”, predictable people – and to live under a glass dome.
Just two days before Christmas, the members of the Ciolacu government – it has to be said that even before the elections, Romania still had the Ciolacu government, but with a different composition – have redesigned the cabinet structure by means of an emergency ordinance.
It should be noted that 21 sovereignist MPs voted for the new pro-European coalition in Bucharest.
The name changes in the Ciolacu government will happen. I don’t think this is important because, as my grandmother used to say: “our people come, our people go, we remain like fools”.
SOCIETY’S ANGER
Romanians became furious and reacted on social networks, especially on tik tok, after those who voted for independent candidate Călin Georgescu were called “the scum of society” by the channel’s permanent guest, Mugur Ciuvică, on Antena 3.
Ciuvică is also a former employee of Romania’s Presidential Chancellery during Emil Constantinescu’s term in office, and then headed a state-funded NGO, according to Vestea.net.
After public opinion exploded, Antena 3 TV presenter Mircea Badea came out publicly and claimed that everything is fake news, a manipulation. He claims the words were taken out of context.
If you see the program or a wider sequence, not just the sentence, it is clear that it was strictly, but strictly about some people who threatened death, who threatened violence and who manifested themselves in public in a horrible way, unacceptable to any reasonable person. Unacceptable. So, it was absolutely not about the large, substantial electorate of Mr. Călin Georgescu, Badea said.
NETWORKS ARE NOT RESTING
Some of the reactions of ordinary people:
– The anthem “Pleava societății”, which clearly says “democracy is dead
– On Facebook, a Romanian proposed the creation of the Pleava societății party
– On tik tok, there is a channel called “Pleava societății”.
These are just some of the reactions. But it is very clear that the tension among Romanians is at alarming levels, that people are fed up with the arrogant and defiant attitude of the authorities, politicians, journalists who are paid with public money.
People accuse the political class of playing games in the interests of other powers, not in the interests of Romania:
The ministers in the Ciolacu 2 government have been defying since their investiture. They are simply masters, they defy us all. We are still in power, you can’t do anything, you can’t push us aside, you can’t do anything, because we will still lead you, whether you like it or not, whether you like it or not, a tik toker said.
RUSSIAN CARD
Russophobia has again been used from the highest level to divide the population, to create false targets and to justify the defeat of pro-European parties in Romania.
From the way the action was carried out, from the way the attacks were carried out on TikTok, TikTok accounts in Russia, simultaneous attacks on all the servers which were caught up in the vote count, attacks which were repulsed. These multiple actions cannot be executed by individual actors, group or party. They are of such scale and complexity that only a state actor can do such a thing. In the service area these patterns are very well known and it is known who acts in this way, and here it was Russia, said Klaus Iohannis.
But surprise! Romania’s National Tax Administration Agency found “Russians” in the National Liberal Party.
The Brussels-based publication notes that the National Liberal Party (PNL) paid for a campaign on TikTok that ended up massively promoting Călin Georgescu, writes snoop.ro .
Those who believed or wanted to believe in the involvement of Russians in the elections did what they know best: attempt to produce evidence, provocations – for example, on December 7, 2024, when law enforcement was “visiting” supporters of Călin Georgescu, I received a message on Telegram with a video supporting Georgescu. A bit of a coincidence, considering that the person in question – the sender – had not contacted me for several months.
I sent him a message back in the evening, when I remembered, telling him he was just a provocateur,
And it’s not a one-off. It’s sad, though, that we’re back to a time of sad memories.
The conclusion is one: we now have two Romanias: one of politicians and one of ordinary people. It is sad.
