When the police took him to the Attorney General’s office on Wednesday, far-flung Romanian Local, Callin Zoroscu, did not see any strict hero that he likes to present on social media.
Five hours later, when Georgesku emerged, he showed a victorious smile before making a balance on his crutches to show the same gesture that South African billionaire Elon Musk recently surprised the world. First, he put his right palm on his heart, then he extended his arm, which can only be interpreted as an Nazi salute.
Shortly before the incident, Musk posted on his social media platform X that the authorities “arrested the person who votes the most in the Romanian presidential election.”
It was wrong – Georgesku was not arrested, but was taken for questioning. But the false claim was still read by 17.9 million spectators in a few hours.
Controversy over canceled election
This was the most recent encouragement in a attracted controversy over Romania’s 2024 presidential election, which was surprisingly canceled by the country’s constitutional court just two days before the last round of voting in December. At that time, far-fetched, Russian supporters Russian candidates were the front runners in the Georgsku race.
After interrogating him on Wednesday, the prosecutors placed the populist under judicial control, which prevents him from leaving the country or being actively engaged on social media.
Among other things, the prosecutors have accused Georgsku of “constitutional orders against the constitutional order” of “constitutional orders against” constitutional orders “about the funding of their election campaign, spreading false information and false announcements. Therefore, he is re-observing the previous allegations of “fascist, racist, zenophobic, or who supporting antisementary outfits” after expressing sympathy to the East-West War Iron Guard party of Georgsku.
It is unclear whether the current investigation will give birth to the court case, and the decision whether Georgsku may run in the re -presided presidential election in May.
Performance of force by sympathy
The supporters of far-flung populistan, including the Romanian’s Union, included the second largest party in the right-wing National Alliance (AUR) party-Romania Parliament, on Saturday called for a massive opposition to the Palace of Parliament of the capital Bucharest.
The performance is clearly a major performance of force against political installation, and it is uncle that it will be peaceful.
So far, it seems that the criminal investigation against Georgsku has only increased his support.
Election irregularities
Formally, the judiciary cannot be convicted for the rise of Georgsku or the rise of far and wide in Romania, overall, the way the Romania’s government and the judicial system have taken over the recent presidential election, it is filled with irregularities.
For example, in October, a far-flung presidential candidate was completely excluded from the race, which is fully sympathetic with the same conservative, nationalist iron guard. But for unknown reasons – whether intentionally or as an inspection – he was concerned to stay in the race, and the investigation in the matter was recently dormant.
Leading for the race, Georgsku was voting in singles points, but surprisingly won the first round with 23% of the popular vote. This sudden growth in popularity was clearly thanks to his growing fame on the social media platform Tiktok.
The constitutional court did not compete with the results of the first election round, but rather canceled the run-off election, citing intelligence, stating that Georgesku had re-linked the illegal election finance and was supported by Russia. While the evidence is available to refund this first claim, no one supports the subsequent allegation.
Support with alone musk
But it seems impossible that the secret service of Romania would have only highlighted Georoscu’s clandstine behavior after the first round of the election and shortly before the run-off. For a large part of the public, it just appeared as if the political elite of Romania feared that the “wrong” candidate would win.
Now, the controversy over the election election has attracted international attention. At the Munich Security Conference in mid -February, the US vice -president determined the decision to cancel the election as a prime example as he accused European governments to ignore voter concerns and bring back the free speech.
Tech-Billionaire and uncontrolled American government agent Elon Musk, meanwhile, is promoting Georgsku’s online popularity with a series of his social media platform X.
A public divided
In Romania, the public is divided on whether the election cancellation is justified or not. There are also people who are radical to Georgeku opponents, who would argue that it was needed. Instead, they say that the judiciary is being made helpful by the political aristocracy, which are reducing the rule of democracy and law.
At present there is no known evidence that the judiciary is affected in the present case. But the previous cases of severe political attention in judicial matters have been well documented.
This article was translated from German.
