The Romanian government led by Ilie Bolojan was brought down by Parliament through a
motion of no confidence that received 281 votes in favor, far exceeding the 233 votes
required for approval. The governing coalition collapsed because one of its own
components, the Social Democratic Party (PSD), voted for the motion together with
opposition forces, including George Simion’s Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR),
effectively abandoning the executive. Romania has a semi-presidential system very similar
to the French one, and it is now up to the President of the Republic, Nicușor Dan, to begin
consultations with the parties in order to assess the possibility of forming a new coalition
government, a minority government, or even calling early elections.
The Bolojan government was supported by a colorful majority ranging from the left-wing PSD
to the liberals and moderates of the National Liberal Party (PNL) and Save Romania Union
(USR), along with the party representing the Hungarian minority, the Democratic Alliance of
Hungarians in Romania (UDMR). It was a grand coalition government, or “broad agreement”
government as Italians would say, established primarily to safeguard power in the interests
of certain Brussels nomenklaturas, irritated by the growing sentiment among the Romanian
population that has spread increasingly since the Covid era and the public protests against
certain illiberal measures. Today, this discontent is fueled by inflation, which has become
dramatic in Romania even more so than in Western Europe, and by the EU’s bureaucratic
dirigisme, which worsens problems instead of solving them. This popular frustration allowed
a candidate in the 2024 presidential elections, Călin Georgescu—previously ignored by the
mainstream media—to emerge in first place during the first round of voting.
Georgescu’s breakthrough destabilized the certainties of the old elites in Bucharest and
Brussels, both because of his unexpected electoral success and because of the highly
critical views on the current EU contained in his political platform. We all know what
happened next. The propaganda machine deployed in defense of the Romanian and
European status quo spread the narrative that Russian interference had tainted the vote and
fueled Georgescu’s electoral surge, claiming that without Moscow’s help he would never
have managed to secure first place. This media campaign led the Romanian Constitutional
Court to annul the legitimacy of the first round of the 2024 presidential elections and prevent
the second round from taking place.
This eventually led to the presidential elections of May 2025, in which the first round was
won by George Simion with more than 40% of the vote, while the second round was won by
Simion’s main rival, the current president Nicușor Dan. It should be noted that Călin
Georgescu was and still is an independent, but Simion’s party often referred to him, and
AUR’s leader, by running for president in 2025, in some way picked up Georgescu’s baton
after he had been blocked by the Constitutional Court. Therefore, George Simion managed
to rally many of Georgescu’s voters around his candidacy last year, and although the support
he received in the first round of the 2025 presidential election did not translate into final
victory, it at least made clear that Călin Georgescu’s breakthrough was genuine and not
artificially driven by foreign manipulation, and that there is a significant part of Romania
seeking profound internal and continental change.
In Romania, as in many other European nations, increasingly broad sectors of society are
demanding national governments capable of asserting themselves in Europe and defending
domestic interests, while also shaping a better Union than the current one—more focused on
major global issues and competition with other geopolitical blocs, and less lost in
bureaucratic overreach and the creation of first- and second-class members. None of this
pleases the continental establishment committed to preserving the status quo, and this is
why genuine anti-democratic distortions are put in place to try to stop people and parties
seeking to give voice to these sectors of society. The rise of Călin Georgescu is brutally
halted by portraying him as a puppet of Vladimir Putin, and then “Harlequin governments”
are assembled (Italy has considerable experience with them) to isolate politically
inconvenient forces such as George Simion’s AUR. Yet these operations, besides damaging
the political and economic stability of nations, always prove to be extremely short-lived. In
this regard, we have witnessed the disastrous backroom maneuvers coordinated in France
by Emmanuel Macron with the aim of hindering the rise of Marine Le Pen.
European peoples are freer and more mature than the upper circles of the EU tend to
believe, and the more an attempt is made to marginalize a certain political viewpoint, the
more it grows unstoppable, despite all the hidden games designed to undermine popular will.
In Romania, George Simion’s AUR continues to grow despite the wall erected jointly by the
PNL and PSD. Indeed, it grows even stronger because a party such as the National Liberal
Party—which until a few years ago represented the Romanian center-right alternative to the
social democrats of the PSD, itself born from the ashes of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s Communist
Party—now forms unnatural governments with its historical adversaries in order to satisfy
certain EU diktats, thereby leaving vast open spaces on the right. And forced governments
artificially constructed to suppress unwelcome electoral outcomes, such as Ilie Bolojan’s
government in Romania, are short-lived because the many contradictions on which they are
built soon explode.
A brief concluding reflection must also be made regarding Russia and its alleged
interference in other countries’ elections.
Here at La Voce del Patriota, we are certainly not suspected of being pro-Putin, and
precisely because we do not love autocracies or the lies imposed by oligarchies, we believe
that Putin’s Russia—despite all of its responsibilities in Ukraine and elsewhere—is often
used as a pretext to sideline leaders and parties inconvenient to certain circles. This
happens in Europe with Călin Georgescu and Marine Le Pen, and it happened in the same
way in America with Donald Trump. Lies always have short legs, and we conclude with the
example of George Simion’s Alliance for the Union of Romanians. This party, besides having
declared loyalty to NATO, advocates the reunification of Romania with the Republic of
Moldova, whose identity is equally Romanian. Bringing Moldovans into the embrace of
Bucharest means welcoming them into the EU and the Atlantic Alliance. Putin would not be
pleased with that at all.
