One of the most detestable forms of cynicism is to take advantage of people’s ignorance to induce emotions, hopes, expectations that you can then capitalize on in your own interest and against them.
This is exactly what Călin Georgescu and his affiliated press, with the support of some lawyers who accepted professional prostitution, did in the matter of legal actions for the annulment/suspension of the annulment of the elections and the resumption of the second round.
And it is a cynicism symptomatic of everything that the public communication of the true, but camouflaged candidate of the system represents.
Manipulation of legal actions
For any lawyer with average skills, not even a legal luminary, the annulment/suspension of the CCR decision or a victory at the ECHR were absolutely impossible. So the decisions were predictable. I have already explained in detail why.
In short, because the decisions and rulings of the CCR, including Decision 32/2024, are final and generally binding from the moment of publication in the Official Gazette, and there is no appeal against them. Neither to any court, nor through the review procedure even by itself.
And the ECHR does not have jurisdiction over presidential elections, does not annul CCR decisions or those of the courts, but grants compensation after at least two years of proceedings, does not issue interim measures, such as suspending a decision, unless the life or physical integrity of a person is in danger.
I find it impossible to believe that Mr. Georgescu's lawyers, who argued on TV studios with anyone stating the simple facts mentioned above, did not know them. They are basic. And I don't believe they didn't tell Mr. Georgescu that he had nothing to expect from the judicial procedures.
So all the circus of filing petitions with a procession and scandal at the CCR, when the system's candidate was strategically absent from the country and absent from the rally he called for, all the circus from the High Court of Cassation and Justice and then from the ICCJ had primarily the role of keeping the agitation around Călin Georgescu alive.
This kind of candidate, who has nothing to offer but slogans targeted at frustrations and disappointments, cannot afford to lose the emotion without which reason and argument have a chance to break through the thin veil of hysteria. It must be kept as thick as possible and maintained with thick smoke.
People do not understand legal details, and it is natural for it to be so. I have noticed from comments on Facebook that for some, the ECHR is an EU institution, which is completely false. It belongs to the Council of Europe, of which Romania has been a part long before becoming an EU member.
A large majority sincerely, but completely wrongly, believes that the ECHR has the jurisdiction to impose the resumption of the second round. It does not. Many believe that CCR judges can be judged for their votes, which is false.
So it is very easy for these predictable decisions to now be instrumentalized against those who formulated them.
For example, as soon as the ECHR announced that it rejected Mr. Georgescu's request, his lawyer, Ingrid Mocanu, went on TV to tell us that the ECHR is a political institution, named, like the CCR, and even worse, it is "Sorosist." That is why the ECHR does not do justice to Georgescu, not because he requested an absurdity.
If the ECHR is such a despicable institution, why did Mr. Georgescu appeal to it? To be able to victimize himself in relation to globalism, Sorosism, and other tools of the devil himself.
Similarly, internal justice is demonized because future decisions against the absurdities requested by Mr. Georgescu are predictable. He exploits a chronic dissatisfaction with the functioning of justice, often justified, but not in this case, which could not be resolved otherwise.
And, in fact, Mr. Georgescu is not the victim. What is being induced is that the people themselves are the victims, they must hate justice, the ECHR, and foreigners in general, fight against them by putting the sword in the hand of their Messiah.
Great absurdities
This is how Călin Georgescu's entire discourse looks. He exploits a natural dissatisfaction with the lack of performance of the political class, with the incumbent president, but without offering viable solutions, only absolute fantasies that, under normal conditions, not even 10% of those now willing to vote for this candidate would believe.
For example, gasoline at one leu/liter. Only the extraction, refining, transportation, storage cost that much. Half of the price of gasoline is the taxes that go to the state. If you give up on them, what do you put in their place?
How do you ensure that at such a price, neighbors do not rush daily to buy cheaper Romanian gasoline than water? Do you sell it only with an ID card? You said you don't want to leave the EU.
Or how is it credible to promise that there will be no more poor people in Romania?
And, in general, how do you fulfill all your promises with the constitutional duties of the president, who has no prerogatives in the economic, fiscal, education, health, etc. fields?
But it is convenient, not only for Mr. Georgescu, by the way, to maintain the illusion of the president-tsar. Isn't Nicușor Dan doing the same for the opposing camp, promoting the same mirage of independence, equivalent to self-condemnation to institutional impotence?
Or does Mr. Georgescu intend a genuine coup, with the annulment of the December 1 vote result and the takeover of all power that the Constitution does not give him?
System Camouflaged as Antisystem
And the biggest fraud is precisely the camouflage of Mr. Georgescu in the antisystem. As long as he worked somewhere officially, minus the years when he miraculously lived on pure air in Vienna, Mr. Georgescu was exclusively part of the system. Almost all the jobs he listed on his CV are related to the system, through various ministries or state institutions.
Does anyone rationally explain how a college graduate in 1986 immediately goes for training in the UK and the USA, and after only 6 years becomes a minister's advisor? How do we imagine that in 2010 he was proposed to Traian Băsescu for the position of prime minister? How do we imagine that he was sent to the UN from outside the system?
None of the candidates announced for the presidential elections have such a system career. Which is neither bad nor good. It's a fact. And denying, camouflaging it represents imposture.