Romanian Prosecutor’s Office Arrests Former Presidential Candidate Georgescu
Former presidential candidate Călin Georgescu (C), Feb. 26, 2025. X/ @Political_Room
February 26, 2025 Hour: 12:30 pm
The winner of the annulled 2024 presidential election will be investigated for alleged irregularities.
On Wednesday, Romanian nationalist politician Călin Georgescu, who won the annulled 2024 presidential elections, was arrested and taken to the General Prosecutor’s Office for investigations into possible electoral irregularities. This incident occurred just as he was set to announce his new bid for the presidency.
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“About 30 minutes ago, the system stopped him in traffic and detained him for questioning at the General Prosecutor’s Office! Where is democracy? Where are the partners who should be defending democracy?” his team posted on Facebook.
The newspaper Digi24 reports that Georgescu is being questioned as a suspect in the broad investigation into alleged irregularities in his candidacy. A few hours earlier, the Prosecutor’s Office had announced that 47 home searches had been carried out in the districts of Sibiu, Mureș, Timiș, Ilfov, and Cluj.
As part of these activities, 27 individuals and four offices belonging to legal entities were subjected to prosecution on suspicion of various crimes, authorities stated. Among those crimes, the Prosecutor’s Office cited actions against the constitutional order, public incitement, “initiating or establishing an organization of a fascist, racist, or xenophobic nature,” and “false statements regarding the sources of financing for the electoral campaign.”
The individuals under investigation belong to Georgescu’s inner circle. He referred to the actions ordered by the Prosecutor’s Office as a new attempt to “fabricate evidence to justify the theft of the elections.”
“The communist-Bolshevik system continues its atrocious abuses! Today, at 6 in the morning, they once again raided dozens of locations, storming into dozens of families,” Georgescu wrote on Facebook.
“They are trying to fabricate evidence to justify the theft of the elections and doing everything possible to block my new presidential candidacy,” he added.
On Wednesday, George Simion, leader of the ultranationalist Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), went to the Prosecutor’s Office headquarters with other party lawmakers to show their support for Georgescu.
“Preventing Georgescu from submitting his candidacy is not normal. It is an abuse by the totalitarian state. Along with all AUR legislators, we are here to oversee and ensure that no laws are violated and that no innocent person is detained or arrested,” Simion told the press in front of the Prosecutor’s Office.
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Source: EFE