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Georgescu was once considered a technocrat with a solid international career. When that career ended, he adopted a pro-Russian and anti-Western discourse and expressed his admiration for Ion Antonescu and Corneliu Zelea Codreanu.
From the Ministry of the Environment to the UN via the Romanian Foreign Affairs Ministry
Călin Georgescu, aged 62, is a graduate of the University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine in Bucharest, majoring in Land Improvement. According to his CV, he also holds a PhD decree in Pedology from the same university, but he also graduated from the "National Security and Defense - Geopolitics and Geostrategy" postgraduate program of the "Carol I" National Defense College.
In 1991, he became the advisor to the then Minister of the Environment in the Stolojan government. He later held the position of general secretary in the same institution, and in 2000 he was appointed executive director of the National Center for Sustainable Development. From this position, he coordinated the drafting of the National Strategy for Sustainable Development. In 2004 he was transferred to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and between 2006 and 2012 he held the position of executive director of the Institute for Innovation and Development Projects.
In the period 2010-2012 he was also the UN special rapporteur on the “Adverse effects of the illicit movement and dumping of toxic and dangerous products and wastes on the enjoyment of human rights” and in 2013 he became president of the European Support Center in Winterthur (Switzerland) of the Club of Rome .
Since 2021, he has been a lecturer at the Pitești University Center of the National University of Science and Technology of Bucharest Polytechnics.
“Back-up" Prime Minister for more than a decade
His name was on the list of potential premiers in 2011 and 2012 as a replacement for Emil Boc, whose popularity was declining after the measures taken during the economic crisis of 2009-2010. At that time, Georgescu said that he was not interested in becoming head of Government. In 2016, Călin Georgescu was proposed for the office of PM of Romania by the "Romanian Civil Society" Federation, one of the organizations that congratulated Russia for the annexation of Crimea, seen as a "return to the motherland".
After the 2020 elections, when AUR (Alliance for the Union of Romanians) managed to enter Parliament, George Simion's party proposed Călin Georgescu for the position of prime minister. Dorin Lulea, the current first vice-president of AUR, stated at the time that Georgescu was not a member of the party, being appointed as a result of his expertise in sustainable development. Georgescu was AUR's candidate for the position of prime minister during the political crisis generated by the fall of the Cîțu government, in October 2021.
An admirer of Ion Antonescu and Corneliu Zelea Codreanu and a critic of NATO and the EU. Conflicts with other promoters of sovereigntism
Following some controversial statements related to Georgescu’s declared admiration for controversial figures such as Ion Antonescu and Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, the AUR leadership asked him to clarify his position and distance himself from those statements. In addition, the General Prosecutor's Office ordered the opening of a criminal case for promoting, in public, the cult of persons guilty of genocide against humanity and war crimes, and for the promotion of fascist, legionary, racist or xenophobic ideas, concepts or doctrines. Currently, the status of the case is unclear.
These were not the only controversial statements made by Călin Georgescu. In 2021, the independent candidate claimed that the “Deveselu shield is a diplomatic shame” . He also said that Romania's NATO membership did not provide the security guarantees that the country needed, and the accession to the European Union turned the country into a colony of the West, which lost its sovereignty and independence.
Paradoxically, the conservative media consider him “an agent of globalism” , and other politicians from the sovereignist spectrum even say that he is an agent of the Israeli secret service.
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