The Daily Populous Thursday January 30th, 2025 evening edition
Authored by pravda.com.ua and submitted by KadmonX

Călin Georgescu, a far-right pro-Russian Romanian politician, has called Ukraine a fictitious state and said that its division between neighbouring states is inevitable.

Source: Georgescu in a discussion with journalist Ion Cristoiu, as reported by European Pravda

Quote from Georgescu: "The world is changing. Borders will change. Moreover, if the borders change, where will we be? We have Northern Bukovyna, which is of interest. We have Bugeac, we have Northern Maramureş, right? From the former... what was it called... Transcarpathia! There are also Hungarians... Lviv, which will remain with the Poles, and Malorussia…" said Georgescu.

Details: He said that the division of Ukraine is ‘inevitable’.

"One hundred per cent, it will happen. Well, they have no other way! The path to something like this is inevitable. Ukraine is a fictitious state. It is the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic," Georgescu said.

For reference: Northern Bukovyna is part of the Bukovyna region and is now located in Ukraine’s Chernivtsi Oblast in the west of the country. Budzhak (Bugeac in Romanian) is a historical region in Ukraine’s south between the mouths of the Danube, Dnister and the Black Sea, and is now part of Odesa Oblast. Northern Maramureş is a geographic-historical region comprising roughly the eastern half of Zakarpattia Oblast in Ukraine’s west, near the border with Romania.

Earlier, Georgescu said that if he won, he would ban the continued export of Ukrainian grain through Romania and further military aid to Ukraine.

Georgescu remains the most popular candidate ahead of the repeat presidential election in May.

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Fevernova2002 on January 30th, 2025 at 10:06 UTC »

Why so many of these mentally ill assholes get so many votes nowadays?

Low-Ad903 on January 30th, 2025 at 09:46 UTC »

The guy is running on populism heavily funded by russia, he's been backed by russian money funneled in tiktok mainly to push a message akin to "just and uncorrupted" witch catches with the impoverished population of Romania, claiming he's not politically affiliated even though he's in politics in low or midlevel positions since the late '90. People want to believe him because all other political parties made basically no drastic improvement in a short period of time since the '89 revolution(even though the situation in Romania keeps improving). He has rhetoric that adhere to the masses but he's batshit crazy borrowing speeches from the Legionaries movement, having people that are members of fascist ideologies surrounding him. The biggest fear atm is that the decision to cancel the first round of elections worked in his favor given that he was unknown basically 3 weeks before the elections now it's easy for him to run his campaign on "they are scared of the will of the people" and the 2nd ranked in the elections that were canceled now has to compete on the same votes with other people. Luckily however the president in Romania doesn't have that much power so even if he gets to be elected he won't be able to do much.

KadmonX on January 30th, 2025 at 09:28 UTC »

There are two notes to make here - this candidate has the highest rating right now. And the last time there were annexations of territories in Europe was just before the World War II.