The ‘structures’* that had the task of “spotting” Călin Georgescu or not allowing the toy that Moscow has been crafting for over a decade to get out of hand, have the single task this week of fixing the problem and showing the people that they can still be efficient and true patriotic servants of the people.
And the public, if their reflexes of self-preservation have not completely abandoned them, still have time, until the second round, to meditate on what kind of Romania a president Calin Georgescu would be, served by a third of the new Parliament, and supported by the Russians with its weapons and soldiers of hybrid war.
That’s what the political landscape and society will look like under this miserable political-geopolitical scenario.
I’m not good at giving advice to politicians, but I think I have some good ideas for civilians to think about before they go to the polls on Sunday.
If today’s Romania seems imperfect and we have legitimate frustrations and dissatisfaction, a future Romania led by a president Călin Georgescu, will make us miss the old Romania.
Călin Georgescu, just like Hitler and, more recently, Putin, is also the kind of dictator in the making who does not shy away from giving away, in the embryonic stage, precious clues about what will happen with him at the helm.
Hitler made his war and imperialist plans known by writing a book.
Putin communicated them on the stage of a large security conference (what an irony, held in Munich), and later, also via other forums, including an open letter, published just a few months before the invasion of Ukraine.
Călin Georgescu also wrote books where he laid down a fuzzy bait. But his plans to bring down Romania’s economy and democracy became crystal clear in fringe lectures, sectarian interviews, and his political manifesto.
Many of Călin Georgescu’s speeches deserve attention, given the public, political and geopolitical weight that this individual has suddenly acquired.
Three of them tell us everything we need to know. I’ll keep the fourth one for last.
- He promises “the establishment of a sovereign-distributive state and a society based on participatory democracy”.
- He promises that “there will be no more political parties in this country. None at all! Not a single political party!”.
- He also promises to nationalize foreign companies. The way he talks about refers to the methods recently used by Putin’s Russia after the start of the invasion of Ukraine.
In such a Romania, such as the one outlined by Georgescu in the three points above (and a fourth below), Romania’s political-social framework will descend into a dictatorship.
What is means:
- From the “patriotic” destruction of any form of opposition, because – why not? – such and opposition can only be one that has been sold to foreign interests.
- The eradication of any form of state power, other than that of the president-dictator.
- And to poverty for the people he tricked with the Ceausescu model of the ’80s being the most plausible outcome.
Two or three years before invading Ukraine, Putin painstakingly prepared the ground at home.
He initiated the amendment of the Constitution to ensure his rule until 2036.
And less than a year before giving the order to invade Ukraine, he signed a law that gives him more rights.
In the process of fooling the Russian people, Putin has disguised his intention to legitimize his dictatorship by mixing all kinds of cultural war themes including the now famous theme of traditional values, together with extending his mandate
He bewitched Russians in such a way that they applauded his agenda without understanding what his agenda actually was.
Călin Georgescu has declared himself to be a follower of “Russian wisdom”. And are definitely seeing now, what he is going to say, and how he will act.
Just as Putin fooled the Russians, using fragrant smoke bombs to make them cheerfully vote for the Constitution that extended his mandate for another 15 years, his villanous disciple, Calin Georgescu, is now doing the same.
I listed three points from his program as a dictator-in-the-making: “participatory democracy”, “no parties”, and nationalization.
How could he exploit them if he becomes president? Very simply and effectively!
The three fundamental elements will naturally flow and each step will create the right conditions to amplify and make possible the next.
Through “participatory democracy”, in President Georgescu’s Romania, laws and implicitly the government will be exercised through a discretionary referendum.
If Georgescu doesn’t have a majority to his liking in Parliament and his own government? No problem! He will return to the people. Because, as he says, the people are his political party, the only party.
It will be so easy for him to organize referendums that will appeal to the public, because there are themes of extreme populism, and if you package them as Putin did, you can’t go wrong.
Whoever finds solace today in the fact that the Parliament and the Government, are of different political stripes will slow him down or block him outright, are bitterly mistaken. It would be better they woke up quickly from the stupor of self-deception.
The guru who was elected head of state will have the sectarian part of the people as an ally and there will not be a single institutional or legal wall capable of resisting him.
By acting in this way for a while, he will then end up raising the question of the purpose of political parties. Maybe he will literally abolish them, but maybe not.
Maybe he will act like the Romanian communists trained by Stalin’s Moscow, but maybe he will act like Putin’s Moscow, formally keeping the two chambers of Parliament only to turn them into cardboard rooms, good only for the stamp.
Or maybe it will abolish one chamber and keep the other.
No matter what method a eventual president Călin Georgescu chooses to break these “mobs” (the term used by Călin Georgescu for political parties), the result will be the same: all power to the dictator and the impression of power, to the people.
Finally, once this step is completed, a President Georgescu will proceed to do pulverize foreign capital and to nationalize everything that can be nationalized.
Such magic exercises have been seen in Russia, as such magic exercises have been carried out by South American dictators. Of course, this magic exercise was also seen in Romania, when the Russians descended on the country in tanks bringing the messianism of communism 80 years ago.
The result is always the same: growing poverty, rationing of basic goods, daily despair in every household, broken families.
Like Hitler and like Putin, Călin Georgescu announced in advance what was in store for us if we turn into his doormat, at the polls, and make our country a doormat, on the altar of Russia’s interests.
Some will be tempted to say that Romania cannot be as vulnerable today as it was 80 years ago. They say we are in the EU and we are in NATO.
We are. But for how long?
Because point 4, which I haven’t mentioned, but left for the end, is the following: “neutrality”, canceling the East-West distinction, something the pro-Russian Calin Georgescu intensely promotes. Both mean nothing less than leaving the EU and NATO.
What a tragic irony: this happens just when we have been fully admitted to Schengen, just when we will no longer need visas for the USA!
As a country, you cannot be “neutral” by remaining part of these two structures. You can’t cancel the East-West distinction by staying in these two Western alliances. So, goodbye EU, goodbye NATO! And snowdrops for Russia!
The political measures that will undermine the rule of law (parties abolished, annulment of the separation of powers in the state) and the economic measures that will undermine the free market and the treaties in force in which Romania is engaged will attract drastic sanctions from the two alliances that have civilized us, enriched us and that offer us today a generous and vital security umbrella (particularly in times of war).
Calin Georgescu will take us out of the EU and NATO either directly or indirectly. In any case, he will just take us out.
All he needs is to be voted president.
And rest assured (here is another seductive word he uses in hypnosis), once elected he will destroy everything, he will do it meticulously and, the cruel irony is that Putin had previously announced this would happen, as did Hitler.
“Food, Water, Energy” – is the title Călin Georgescu’s manifesto. If he wins, we will soon miss them. And we won’t have Peace either!
*structures in Romanian
refers to intelligence agencies and security services.
