The first round of the presidential race demonstrated that the Legionnaire-Putinist type ‘ sovereignty’ has more Trojan horses in Romania than we knew. It also emerged hat one of these specimens was carefully raised, with attention to the smallest detail, based on a long-term plan by specialists in strategic candidates, who act both domestically and Moscow.
In terms of votes, Călin Georgescu pulled off a shockingly efficient sprint, seemingly appearing out of nowhere, although he had been organically growing for a whole decade.
His political capital, as seen from the result of the first round of presidential elections, was inevitably reflected in the parliamentary elections.
This meant – a reasonable assumption – that in addition to AUR, there was the serious possibility that the new Parliament would host three Putinist parties, not just one. The SOS and POT parties, not just AUR.
Calin Georgescu’s electoral reservoir was had crystallized long before the legislative elections, a future Parliament in which the PUTIN-NATO ratio would tend towards 30%-70%, 35%-65 or even 40%-60%.
Although “only” 25%-75% would have been bad enough.
Analysis of the parliamentary election vote will become clearer as more ballots are counted.
One thing is certain, however: we have a few particularly difficult years ahead of us, with a Parliament in which the sovereignist-Putin wing will weigh heavily. And we will have the sado-masochistic pleasure of seeing right away what this means, in concrete terms – sucg as legislative activity and obstacles to the new government, in the case that the new government will be one with the pro-Moscow wing.
The fragmentation of the vote in the reformist-Atlanticist wing will make negotiations for the formation of the new government seem like walking on a tightrope in its ability to carry out economic, social and even political reforms that Romania needs like oxygen (especially the former).
In any case, it is also worth remembering that the reformist-European-Atlanticist wing will be as reformist, European and Atlanticist as much as it is allowed to be by, guess who? That’s right, the PSD. Because the PSD’s weight, as results show, will hang heavily in the balance.
There were, of course, many culprits for the situation of force majeure (from a political and even geopolitical point of view) in which Romania found itself, precisely in the month in which it celebrates 35 years since the collapse of the communist dictatorship.
The next few days and weeks will bring more and more refined analyses.
Today, however, in the heat of the moment, I would say that it is worth putting the magnifying glass on the subversive behavior of a profoundly politicized institution, although, at first glance, it may seem to many to be outside politics: the Church. And especially the Romanian Orthodox Church.
Hungry for financing from the state and at the same time hungry for as much high-level power as possible, and also in all the corners of society the ROC has been abusing the trust of the population (especially the economically, socially and ecclesiastically vulnerable) since 1989.
The Church sat down with any type of character or political party and with any economically potent character or economically influential legal person, if the encounter could fill the patriarchal or parochial coffers, or give it more power, or develop of increasingly pharaonic projects. The piece de resistance in this last chapter is the Cathedral of the Nation’s Salvation (where 300 saints will be set in stone and covered in gold, as will over 100 biblical scenes – according to a 2022 Pro TV report. By that time, the cathedral had already swallowed 200 million euros, but was far from finished).
The church did not distance itself from Calin Georgescu, just as it did not distance itself when that horse and other thoroughbred Putinists jumped, nor when the Calin Georgescu joined people promoting the Legionnaires. Not even when he taught Russian wisdom. Not even when he declared that there would be no more political parties.
Calin Georgescu exploits the image of the Church, and the Church is suspiciously lenient with him (this, probably, is also because from a certain point, there is no boundary between indulgence and complicity).
The Soverignist-Putinist wing, made up of AUR, SOS, POT and Călin Georgescu would not have acquired the traction it has today if the Romanian Orthodox Church, through its clergy of high or more modest rank, had been scrupulous about transferring its brand and trust to the most squalid areas of internal politics and acquiescence to foreign interests, that I mean Russian
In the past, the famous PSD ‘barons’ (local bosses with power and money) proliferated with help from Orthodox priests. Today, informal envoys of the criminal Putin proliferate on Romanian soil, also under the banner of the Church.
The AUR-ȘOȘOACĂ case had long since become a textbook case of the way in which the ROC allowed itself to be exploited, if not complicit, in the rise of the sovereignist-legionary-Putinist misfortune.
The Calin Georgescu-POT case is an even more textbook case.
Even the Simion-Șoșoacă couple still has much to learn from (Russian Orthodox patriot) Kirill pathos: the divinity, the church, the cross, the traditional values, the ancestral origins.
Moreover, the legionary, pro-Russia, anti-democracy, anti-Europe, anti-NATO positions of Călin Georgescu, allowed him to pull another “Christian” party of the Moscow rite – POT – in addition to the two that were already in the race – AUR and SOS.
During all this, the Romanian Orthodox Church has guarded its flock from the wolves’ claws just as it would guard a wolf from another wolf (i.e not at all).
Orthodox priests and monks campaigned for the Putinists almost everywhere – at the altar, in monasteries, on pilgrimages, in various conferences, on social media, in interviews, going from door to door – with a lighted candle – in “innocent” conversations on the stairs or in front of the apartment block, with the parishioners weaker than angels.
For years, months, weeks and days on end, the Romanian Patriarchate had no problem, with the Legionnaire elucubrations (overtime efforts) of Calin Georgescu. Nor with his spouting of “Russian wisdom”. Nor with the fact that, half a year before the presidential and parliamentary elections, the same Calin Georgescu prophesied the destruction of political parties, of the “mob rule” of parties. In other words, the Romanian Orthodox Church was lenient with an individual who forecast the path to a dictatorship as salvation (in a country where dictators have screwed over people, poisoned people’s mentalities, demolished churches).
As an election approaches, the generosity of the state, on the taxpayer’s back, tends to increase the budget to the church (this was the case in 2023-2024).
From the central budget and local administrations, about 400 million euros, in total, will be swallowed up for the completion of the Cathedral of the Nation’s Salvation.
A donkey made from reinforced concrete, brick and mosaic, various alloys, woodwork and other things sucks out of our pockets, like a divine suction cup. Even the most optimistic among us could never imagine that this money could go to new schools, kindergartens, and hospitals.
The idea, in the end, is simple: with lots of money and defiant ease, the Romanian state through the church financed, an attack on Romania’s strategic orientation, which we are witnessing today in the form of these elections.
The three parties, AUR, SOS, POT and their leaders have proliferated in Romania, to the shock of the West and the delight of the East, thanks to the money taken from the taxpayers’ pockets and directed to overflowing Church without any God.
Amen! But what a mess!
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