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Destroying democracy to save democracy is all the rage.

However, the European Union and Romanian authorities didn’t just overturn Romania’s elections in December 2024. They went a step further and arrested and indicted the regime’s chief political opponent.

Last week, Calin Georgescu was detained by police on his way to (again) register as a presidential candidate.

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The moment Georgescu is stopped by the police and arrested!
He is accused of having links with fascist organizations and of promoting fascist messages.
Georgescu denies all the accusations!
He could be banned from running for president in May! pic.twitter.com/yi5DHHXFZx

— Borza Bogdan (@borzabogdan1997) February 26, 2025

Georgescu’s ‘Crimes’

Georgescu is being prosecuted for allegedly committing six crimes.

The most serious, Romania’s AGERPRES, reported, is “incitement to actions against the constitutional order.”

Put bluntly, Georgescu is being accused of leading an insurrection in what Courage Media’s analysis of the case concluded was a judicial coup.

Chief among these charges are claims Georgescu was “working with the Russians” to manipulate vulnerable young voters via disinformation and misinformation.

Other accusations, according to the BBC,

“include setting up an organisation with fascist, racist or xenophobic characteristics as well as forming an antisemitic organisation.”

If this all sounds too familiar, that’s because it is.

This is almost, play-for-play, the same 2016 and 2024 judicial lawfare thrown at United States President Donald Trump.

As author Rod Dehrer quipped,

“I’m old enough to remember when the political and media establishment in the US used accusations of Russian election interference to discredit a democratic outcome they did not like. Now it’s Romania’s turn.”

Georgescu’s Surprising Rise to Popularity

Romania’s Social Democrats and centrist parties were taken by surprise after Georgescu trumped the existing parties in the 2024 elections.

Both parties are diehard fans of the EU’s overbearing and bloated Brussels bureaucracy.

Georgescu, on the other hand, is not.

He is a nation-first independent who polled high and then won over 22.94% of the vote. That won him the first round.

Overturning the Election Due to Alleged ‘Russian Interference’

Now, those accusing Georgescu of insurrection have overturned that election.

Politico, when describing the decision as a “massive step to take”, said officials scuttled the election because of “alleged Russian interference”.

After pressure from shell-shocked incumbents, Romania’s Constitutional Court annulled the outcome, forcing Romanians back to the polls.

AP alleged that intelligence officials had uncovered what appeared to be Russian-backed social media accounts using TikTok and Telegram to promote Georgescu.

Some outlets narrowed in on one particular document because it claimed up to 25,000 social media accounts were involved in the alleged mass misinformation coup.

EU courts rejected an appeal made by the Romanian presidential hopeful in January.

The European Court of Human Rights said the issue wasn’t within their jurisdiction.

Incumbents cancelling Georgescu’s candidacy seem to be connected to the independent nationalist’s position on NATO, Ukraine, the EU, and anti-corruption.

Smearing Georgescu as a Fascist

The 63-year-old, they also thinly argued, was connected to fascists.

Fascists supported Georgescu, therefore, Georgescu is a fascist.

Anyone reading this would be right to consider how this same fallacious circular reasoning was used against Australian Moira Deeming.

To recap, Deeming was vilified as a far-right terrorist after Neo-Nazis crashed her Victorian Let Women Speak rally.

Deeming was opposing the LGBTrans takeover of female-only spaces. But because Neo-Nazis turned up to cause trouble, Deeming was smeared as supporting fascists.

Similarly, sculpting minds to view Georgescu as a fascist, the legacy media played the same “far-right” broken record seemingly scripted by EU Socialists.

Adding to the reasons why the deep state might hate Georgescu are his doubts about NATO’s defensive capabilities, which the wolves in legacy media have interpreted as something more catchy, like the tired old strawman: “Putin’s puppet.”

Putin appears nowhere near Georgescu’s CV. But his work as a scientist, an international consultant on sustainable development, and an executive director of the UN Global Sustainability Index Institute in Geneva is included on his resume.

Tension Between Georgescu and EU

Furthering suspicions about why Georgescu has been gagged is his opposition to EU overreach.

A position ironically proven justified by the EU’s elitist attempt to micromanage Romania’s democracy, which is designed to keep Romania within the EU’s centralised power matrix.

Georgescu has his own opinions and, unlike Joe Biden or Justin Trudeau, won’t just shut up, look busy, and read from a script.

Being cautious and sober-minded makes him less controllable and not easily bought.

Especially with money funnelled out of the U.S. via the corrupted and now-defunct USAID program.

This makes Georgescu “unsafe” and unpredictable.

No wonder the bureaucrats in Brussels are worried.

Romania, Ukraine and Russia

As a president who isn’t convinced that the Ukrainians cannot win this narcissistic and needless war, he could pull the pin on the EU training Ukrainian pilots in Romania.

For context, both countries share a border.

Drone shrapnel has already landed inside Romania, and Putin has indicated that he would have no problem targeting Romanian sites.

This is because Putin views Romania’s U.S. missile defence system as provocative.

Why give Putin an excuse to drag Romania into his version of a forever war?

Georgescu could also reverse Romania’s permission for NATO to significantly expand its Mihail Kogqlniceanu base, located on the Black Sea.

Romanian officials green-lit the expansion in March 2024.

More proof that NATO’s strength, purpose and resolve have all been bolstered by Putin’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Democracy Destroyed

Despite the EU’s thinly backed reasoning, the facts remain that Georgescu was a democratically elected presidential candidate cancelled by his political opponents.

Defiant and unshaken, Georgescu wrote,

“We will not fall again into the dark night of dictatorship. We will not perish; we will not kneel!”

We are the people! We hold the power! In Romania and Europe, democracy is the only thing that matters! Only democracy and peace should matter, not the interests of corrupt politicians! We will not fall again into the dark night of dictatorship.

We will not perish; we will not… pic.twitter.com/CBZDeID52A

— Călin Georgescu OFFICIAL ACCOUNT (@CG_Romania) March 1, 2025

Ultimately, it seems Georgescu isn’t a threat to democracy, he’s a threat to the Industrial Military Bureaucracy.

A direct counterpoint to their renewed passion for NATO, resurgent, unhinged anachronistic hatred of Russians, and Romania’s unquestioning subservience to the EU.

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Originally published at The Caldron Pool.

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