Was it not expected after all! Could it not be expected? It seems only the European Union’s self-anointed elites have trouble using their brains. As is known, they caused Romania’s 2024 presidential election to be annulled because the winning candidate Călin Georgescu was – as they are used to label such candidates – far-right, and because the candidate was supposedly backed by no less a factor than the Kremlin (via TikTok – of all the means of exerting political pressure!). Romanians took to the streets and manifested their displeasure and their anger, and how much they were upset and outraged by Brussels’ antidemocratic interference. The protests were further fuelled by the fact that Călin Georgescu was even detained by the law enforcement officers for a short time, interrogated and barred from taking part in the repeated round of the election that was to take place this May. The protests in Bucharest and elsewhere did not receive much mainstream coverage. If we did not have alternative media – who knows? – we might not have learned about the outrage the decision of the EU elites provoked at all. Those who saw the protests through alternative media had the impression that the Romanian people would rise – indeed – the way they did during the last days of Nicolae Ceausescu’s regime.
It turned out the Romanian nation proved to be far more prudent and judicious than the mentioned self-anointed EU elites, who think they know better what is the best path for all humanity to follow. Călin Georgescu was replaced by George Simion, who in the election held last Sunday (4 May) won twice as much support than Călin Georgescu: 40% of the vote as compared to the 23% gained by his party predecessor. Was it not expected after all! Could it not be expected? What did Brussels think at the time when the commissioners or God knows who of those who pull the strings behind the scenes decided to annul the previous election? Did they really believe that the Romanian nation would stand corrected and cast their vote the way it was wished by the managers of the European Union?
Now the managers of the EU are going to have another Viktor Orbán on the eastern flank of the European superstate. How about it? Think also about Slovakia’s Robert Fico and the picture begins to look grim for Brussels. The second round of Romania’s presidential election is due on May 18; on the same day the presidential election in Poland is scheduled to be held. That day will be strenuous for Brussels, indeed: Romania seems to be lost, at least for the time being, how about Poland? If Poland goes “right”, then the whole of the eastern flank of the EU – Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania – will have been somewhat hard to manage. This problem will have been compounded by the persistent and rising popularity of AfD in Germany and Marie le Pen’s party in France. Ideas of “legally” suppressing either of these political groupings might not appear a good solution, judging by the reaction of the Romanian people. If the said parties in France and Germany were to be delegalized, then who knows what might happen next. Not necessarily overnight or violently: the political change in Romania was peaceful and took almost half a year (December 2024 – May 2025), but the success of those who displeased the EU turned out to be all the more bigger, and by so much more impressive.
The EU managers feared Călin Georgescu. What if victorious George Simion (because it just does seem possible that he might lose the second round having such a powerful popular support) appoints Călin Georgescu to the post of Romania’s Prime Minister? Ursula von der Leyen and company will be forced to have dealings with the man they wanted to prevent from taking the reins of power, they will be forced to put courteous smiles on their faces in the presence of a man whom they wanted to remove from the political stage and whom they wanted to denigrate as a Russian stooge. A situation similar to the one with President Donald Trump. As we remember, many European top leaders and top politicians intensely depreciated, besmirched, maligned, and disparaged him before the election only to be compelled to smile in a courteous way afterwards while meeting with the newly elected president if only on grounds of politeness.
The EU’s managers will not dare to pull off the same “legal” trick of annulling Romania’s election. They know they might entail serious political upheaval, and they know that they would lose face altogether. Sure enough, Brussels will not come to terms with such a political verdict of the Romanian nation. Both Călin Georgescu (if again in power as Prime Minister or a minister) and George Simion will be made to feel how much they are disliked until and unless they comply with all the EU’s wishes. Călin Georgescu and George Simion will be handled like Belarus’s President Alexandr Lukashenko used to be treated at the time when he still had contacts with the EU diplomats. Such is democracy made in the EU, such are human rights (to dignity, shall we say?) in the same.
