Călin Georgescu, delegated by the establishmental authorities of Romania a presidential candidate in an interview with Tucker Carlson stated that until the U.S. presidential election, the Romanian electoral strategy remained under the control of the Secretary of State for Administration Joe Biden, and after the losers by the Democrats, the control is to be exercised by the current president of France.
A erstwhile presidential candidate had already said in an interview given to Carlson that the Romanian political strategy was controlled before the U.S. presidential election last year by erstwhile U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, after which after the U.S. election, Emmanuel Macron, president of France, was to take control.
In an interview aired in Romania by Realitatea TV, Georgescu, after preventing him from continuing his fight for presidentship, accused the “globalist mob” of interfering with elections in Romania. He pointed out that "Romania is the most crucial country in the world" and "the same intelligence group that tried to destruct president Trump's campaign" besides interfered with elections in his country.
– I was accused of Russian interference, the same as Trump was accused of in the past... The full strategy in Romania is 100% controlled by abroad interference. Before the U.S. elections, he was controlled by Antony Blinken, erstwhile Secretary of State, and during Trump's regulation he is completely controlled by France. The president of Romania is president Macron today – told Georgescu in the first interview given after preventing him from participating in the presidential election.
When asked by Carlson how the erstwhile U.S. Secretary of State from the Biden administration intervened, Rumun stated that “everyone knows that there was a abroad intervention, that Blinken dictated what the strategy should do”. - Everybody knows. Including president Macron and Maia Sandu and Moldova intervened, but the most crucial was Blinken - Constatus.
Georgescu took the liberty of bold accusations, suggesting that there were plans to start a war, straight hitting French president Emmanuel Macron. Unfortunately, he did not uncover details about these plans or the alleged actions of Antony Blinken.
– They don't request free Romania. NATO's largest military base is in Romania and they want to start planet War III from Romania and affect the full of Europe and the US in it (...). Romania is simply a gateway that leads to war or can defend the planet from war. This is the longest border with Ukraine and in this situation Romania is of strategical importance to the EU, to Macron to start a war He threatened Georgescu.
He besides has his explanation of cancelling his candidacy. He claims that he wanted to be a "peace mediator" alternatively than affect his country in conflicts. – Romania is the most crucial country in the world, an alpha and omega of a fresh era of peace, dignity, love and prosperity. It's the border between good and evil, and that line must be closed, due to the fact that then there will be war. – he continued.
Romanian praised Donald Trump's administration and criticized the European Union. He said that "he recognizes only 1 crucial partner: the United States". president Trump would be “the only guarantor who can solve the situation in Europe” due to the fact that as “the real leader understands that life should be saved alternatively than people sent to death”.
The erstwhile candidate for president of Romania stressed that the EU has established a globalist government with people who have not been elected and that we must fight globalists on a global scale. The "island of sovereignty in the ocean of globalists" cannot be accepted. It should "establish a union of countries fighting for sovereignty".
Georgescu suggested that if Romania "released" from the dominance of globalists, another countries would follow in its footsteps. Domino effect. He complained about persecution of his followers and suppression of freedom of speech. His supporters, including the aged and single mothers, were to be punished with fines worth EUR 1000 and subject to military raids for posts posted on social media. Authorities have prohibited the posting of electoral content on social media by persons another than organization members.
– Călin Georgescu is the most popular political figure in Romania and 1 of the bravest and smartest politicians in the world. This autumn he ran for president based on a program against war, technocracy and debt, and would have won if Biden's administration had not pressed for cancellation of the election, as well as his arrest as a Russian agent – so advertises his interview with Romanian politician Tucker Carlson on his Tuckercarlson.com website. Carlson suggests that Blinken and Macron "killed democracy in Romania".
In December 2024, the Romanian Constitutional Court made an unprecedented decision to annul the 1st circular of the presidential election in that country and extend the mandate of the President-in-Office. Although he was powerfully criticized by the Venice Commission in its study of late January, The European Commission has taken decisive action to “protect” future elections in EU countries from alien interference.
The Romanian tribunal stated that "the electoral process has been marked... by many irregularities and violations of electoral law, which have distorted the free and fair character of citizens' voting and the equal opportunities of candidates in elections, influenced the transparent and fair nature of the electoral run and disregarded the rules on its funding" (paragraph 5).
Such "irregularities" in the electoral run were to make a "dangerous inequality" between the candidate – who allegedly manipulated digital technologies – and another challengers. A "significant exposure" in the social media of 1 policy has led to a direct proportional simplification in the visibility of others.
As a consequence of the annulment of the election, candidate Călin Georgescu requested the European Court of Human Rights (ETPC) to apply the safeguard by suspending the national court's decision and resuming the second circular of voting. However, the Court of Strasbourg rejected the application on the basis of the claim that the application of the safety would go beyond the scope of Article 39 of the Court's Rules of Procedure, since Georgescu had not suffered ‘imreparable damage’.
Casus Romanian motivated the EU authorities to step up their efforts to combat abroad interference, utilizing the Digital Services Act (DSA). It transfers the tasks and competences of public entities to large corporations removed from any real democratic control.
The European Commission launched proceedings against the TikTok platform on 17 December 2024 due to insufficient compliance with the "systemic risk" mitigation obligations in Romania, which are covered by the DSA Act. It speaks of "risk management for elections or civilian discourse", in peculiar the hazard "related to coordinated fraudulent manipulation or automated usage of the service", as well as policy on political advertising and paid political content.
The Regulation requires ‘very large online platforms’ and ‘very large net search engines’ to carry out an yearly ‘assessment of systemic risks’ (Article 34) resulting from the operation of their services and related algorithmic systems.
The hazard catalog is extensive. These include the dissemination of illegal content; the hazard of actual or foreseeable adverse effects on the exercise of fundamental rights, specified as the right to human dignity, respect for private and household life, protection of individual data, freedom of expression and information, including media freedom, non-discrimination, protection of children, consumers; actual or foreseeable negative effects on civilian discourse and electoral processes and for public security; the hazard of actual or foreseeable adverse effects on gender-based violence, the protection of public wellness and minors, and serious adverse effects on the physical and intellectual well-being of the person. Large online platforms and search engines must adapt their algorithmic systems to average content and advertising to these risks.
The DSA Regulation defines the concept of "illegal content" (Article 3), including all cases of sanctioned content, including misinformation as defined in national government (including divergent national approaches to combat mis-, mal- and misinformation, alternatively of harmonising the rules. A crisis consequence mechanics has besides been introduced (Article 36).
The Digital Services Act is the world's first regulation which imposes work on digital companies across the EU for content placed on their platforms. However, the fight against "MDM information" is carried out through guidelines and codes of conduct setting certain standards to be met by journalists, publishers, advertisers and online service providers.
In Romania, the National Administration and Regulatory Office (ANCOM) of Romania discovered alleged irregularities related to interference in elections. He informed the European Commission that TikTok "did not respond quickly" to the authorities' requests to safe the election. ANCOM oversees digital platforms in this country under DSA.
The case besides involves – in terms of compatibility of platforms with DSA – Coimisiún on Meán, the Digital Services Coordinator for Ireland, where TikTok is established. This makes the evaluation of the "systemic risk" for electoral processes even more complicated.
The Constitutional Court of Romania decided on the basis of suggestions from the services that external interference would happen – specifically Russian. This interference, on the another hand, consisted of the fact that the insignificant channel on the Telegram observed by just little than 4,000 people contained 2,000 run material by Calina Georgesc to be fed further on TikTok and in another media. In turn, the run hashtag policy appeared on nearly 1.2 1000 accounts in Romania, of which only 76 were registered as stricte pro-Georgeescu. In these accounts, circumstantial emojis were encouraged by the name of the presidential candidate. A full of 83 accounts posted 2,912 comments, with 25 of these accounts identified as strict pro-Georgeescu. The services stopped Bogdan Peschir, who was to hand over $381 1000 of 131 influencerom for the campaign. The effects of their work were negligible. TikTok's moderators removed respective 100 videos that were expected to be “disinformation” (the proposition is that after Georgesc's failure people will protest, notabene people went to the streets after he was completely eliminated from the election in March of that year). The service indicated that the method of financing the presidential candidate's run might have been against electoral law, but the problem in this case would have been about 1.5% of the candidate's eligible expenditure. It would give small impact.
TikTok suggests there's not adequate evidence that we've been dealing with a covert operation. The services which only had slides received from TikTok and obtained by the electronic communications office differed. Based on these reports, the EC initiated an investigation into the Chinese platform. At the same time, the Commission announced that it would enforce the law with all its power, resisting abroad interference in elections in EU countries.
In the case of a Romanian court decision, the dissemination of MDM information on the presidential candidate was taken into account in a coordinated and allegedly fraudulent manner.
The Romanian case is crucial for another reason. The Romanian case (immediate and drastic actions of the Constitutional Court not appropriate to the circumstances) is intended to prompt the European Court of Human Rights to take specified a position in the Bradshaw case and others against the United Kingdom in order to legalise drastic and immediate measures taken by the authorities, on the pretext of ensuring the protection of free elections from misinformation and unwanted interference in the future. At least that's what any politicians say.
On 28 January 2025, the legal body of the Council of Europe, the Venice Commission, published a study stating that the annulment of elections in Romania by the Constitutional Court there was not authorised.
The RE consultative body on constitutional matters stressed that specified a decision should only apply as a last hotel and on the basis of solid evidence. "The annulment of part of the elections or elections as a full may only be permitted in very exceptional circumstances as ultima ratio and provided that irregularities in the electoral process could affect the result of the vote," said the Commission.
Members of the legal body of the Council of Europe stressed that the annulment of election results undermines public assurance in democratic processes and has far-reaching consequences. Therefore, erstwhile an authority decides to take specified drastic action, its decision must be supported by solid, verifiable evidence, well-founded and transparent.
The opinion added that "the power of constitutional courts to nullify elections of their own accord, if any, should be limited to exceptional circumstances and clearly regulated in order to keep the assurance of voters in the legality of elections".
The Romanian court's decision from the very beginning has sparked considerable controversy. The Constitutional Court took it on the basis of intelligence documents, which, as we already know, did not contain any peculiar data and did not indicate any alleged Russian influence.
Such decisions "should accurately indicate infringements and evidence, and cannot be based solely on secret intelligence (which can only be utilized as contextual information) due to the fact that this would not warrant the essential transparency and verification", the Venice Commission rightly pointed out.
The annulment, which disqualified the candidate of Călin Georgescu's "backright" was initially based on secret papers filed on 28 November and then declassified on 4 December of the year. State authorities claimed that the annulment was justified by Russian ‘impact operations’. They haven't been proven yet. Therefore, the alleged irregularities did not supply adequate grounds for cancelling the elections.
The Venice Commission launched an investigation after 13 December 2024, at the request of Theodoros Rousopoulos, president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. The aim was to identify the conditions and legal standards under which constitutional courts could annul elections. Despite the negative opinion of the Venice Commission, the Romanian tribunal yet eliminated Georgescu from moving for president in the May elections.
It should besides be noted that the Romanian case, and more late the French case of the exclusion of Maria Le Pen from the presidential elections in France, is not accidental. EU authorities are promoting and continuously developing a fresh concept of "information integrity" and "anti-foreign information manipulation and interference" (FIMI).
In the European Parliament's December 2024 briefing (European Parliamentary investigation Service PE 767.153 – December 2024 EN), peculiar attention was paid to promoting a fresh concept on the global stage, namely the "integrity of information" combined with the "European shield of democracy". Pointing out that "digital information has become a public space for debate: a place where people gain access to information and formulate and express opinions" and "over the last 10 years global information ecosystems have besides become increasingly geostrategic battlefields of battles", it was recognised that states must reduce "public opinion manipulation" by "authoritarian actors", who "test and make manipulation techniques to fuel divisions and tensions to undermine democratic societies and open democratic systems".
Geostrategic competition is to translate into corporate geopolitics. "The Digital Information Area has become a disputed territory for large corporations that are fiercely competing for leadership in the improvement and implementation of fresh technologies, with artificial intelligence (AI) being a origin that changes the rules of the game in this quest. These innovations pose a risk: information manipulation campaigns facilitated by generic AI increase threats to democratic information ecosystems."
The EU institutions so combine, as the UN does, the issue of the fight for "integrity of information" with the fight against MDM (mission-, mal- and misinformation) and alleged hatred speech and defence of democratic values, including "election integrity" (protection against external interference).
It is crucial to emphasise the importance of the word "integrity of information", which is inactive developed and promoted in global fora, including by the EU institutions, the UN, the OECD, as a "positive approach to a securely navigable field of information with access to reliable information for all".
Parliament suggests that this concept, within the meaning of the UN and OECD, is in line with the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights on Freedom of Expression, which includes the freedom to have views and to receive and communicate information and ideas without interference from the authorities and regardless of borders. We read in the briefing that "In the EU, the broad concept of information integrity falls within the scope of the evolving European thought of the shield of democracy. The first democracy shield initiative launched in July 2024 combines existing work to counter abroad information manipulation and interference (FIMI) with the implementation of key government and initiatives aimed at improving the wellness of the information sphere. This includes the regulation of online platforms and search engines in the Digital Services Act (DSA), including the reinforced code of conduct of 2022, so that online platforms do more to limit information manipulation and hatred speech, as well as the work of the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) and its regional centres. It besides includes an Act on Artificial Intelligence with its risk-based approach to the regulation of artificial intelligence, including the generic manipulation of information facilitated by artificial intelligence, specified as Deepfakes, the European Act on Media Freedom and the regulation on transparency and targeting political advertising."
All these and the recently created regulations relating to "integrity of information" in the EU are crucial to justify the far-reaching interference of EU authorities in public debate and in any way interference in electoral processes in another countries, as confirmed in this explanation, describing in item the initiatives already undertaken, among others, by the European External Action Service (EEAS), which came up with the word "foreign information manipulation and interference" (FIMI) in 2021. It has been defined as ‘which threatens or may adversely affect the values, procedures and political processes’, has a ‘manipulation character’ and is ‘provided in a targeted and coordinated manner’, including ‘state or non-state entities, including their agents inside and outside their own territory’. Based on this definition, the EC interferes with Romanian presidential elections.
The European Parliament confirms that the concept of "integrity of information" is developing and is to be a pillar of the framework of the European shield of democracy within and outside the EU. It has already been utilized by the EP in the resolutions of the 2 peculiar Committees on abroad Ingerence in 2022 and 2023, calling for the creation of an information integrity centre that would act as a cognition centre facilitating and supporting operational exchange between associate States, institutions and EU agencies. This was besides reflected in the fresh EU safety strategy for the European ProtectEU announced on 1 April.
Source: romancejournal.ro, PCH24.pl
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