Băsescu explains why Călin Georgescu's speech seduces him: “Because I don't understand him”
The former president of Romania, Traian Băsescu, categorized Călin Georgescu as a “charlatan”, but admitted that he is also “talented”. Băsescu explained why some Romanians are attracted to the former presidential candidate's speech, arguing that his success is based on the fact that his message is not deeply understood.
Traian Băsescu, cataloging Călin Georgescu as a “charlatan” PHOTO: Mediafax
Asked at Digi24 why he thinks people are seduced by Călin Georgescu's speech, Traian Băsescu answered directly: “PI admit that I don't understand him. It is false speech. If you take the statements and try to put them into practice, you will find that not many things can be put into practice. It's a nice and round speech“.
At the observation of the journalist – “And then why don't all politicians do what Călin Georgescu does?” – the former president continued: “It's a talent thing. So you can be a talent or a charlatan. He's both.”
Călin Georgescu, under judicial control and sent to court in several cases
Currently, Călin Georgescu is under judicial control in a case in which he is accused of legionary propaganda. The former candidate for the presidential elections of 2024 was sent to court for the crime of “promoting, in public, the cult of persons guilty of crimes of genocide against humanity and war crimes, as well as the act of promoting, in public, fascist, legionary, racist or xenophobic ideas, concepts or doctrines, in a continuous form (5 material acts)”.
Also, Georgescu is on trial in another case, in which he is accused, among other things, of attempted coup, along with the mercenary Horațiu Potra and 20 other defendants.
The “clandestine” meeting and the paramilitary group's plan
According to the indictment, in the context of the decision of the Constitutional Court of December 6, 2024, by which the presidential elections were annulled, on the morning of December 7, 2024, Călin Georgescu would have met, at an equestrian complex in Ciolpani, Ilfov county, “in clandestine conditions”with the mercenary Horaţiu Potra.
The investigators show that he acted in international conflict zones, carried out paramilitary recruitment and training activities and supported Georgescu both during the electoral campaign and before, in order to prepare it.
The prosecutors also claim that Horațiu Potra coagulated a paramilitary group consisting of 21 people, led by him, which was going to move with seven cars to Bucharest to trigger protests against the state authorities. These should have been diverted into “violent actions capable of completing revisionist politics” of Călin Georgescu, “in the sense of preventing the exercise of legitimate power in the state and ensuring the reconfiguration of the constitutional order, by detaching from its fundamental principles and the rules of the rule of law”, thereby endangering national security.
White weapons and pyrotechnic materials found in cars
On the night of December 7 to 8, 2024, the police established filters in the areas of Balotești–Săftica (Ilfov), Mănești and Cornești (Dâmbovița), as well as in the Capital. The law enforcement officers stopped and checked several cars, inside which were found pocketknives, daggers, long-bladed knives, telescopic batons, pepper sprays, boxes, axes and ax tails, pistols and pyrotechnic materials of the most dangerous category, “with the potential to produce powerful explosions that could have caused extensive damage, serious injury and death.”
The conclusion of the prosecutors, who sent the 22 defendants to court, is that the immediate consequence of their actions consisted in endangering national security, by creating a state of danger for the constitutional order and for the social values that protect the exercise of state power under the law.
