Robert Kennedy Jr could attend the book launch in Romania, claims far-right nationalist presidential candidate Călin Georgescu.
ADVERTISEMENTRomanian far-right nationalist presidential candidate Călin Georgescu said Robert F Kennedy Jr may visit Bucharest to promote his latest book, for which Georgescu wrote the foreword.
“As you know, the famous book of Robert Kennedy (Junior), who will most likely be the future health minister under President Donald Trump, was prefaced by me, and he wanted to come to Romania for a long time to launch this book. it is possible that they will do so in the near future,” Georgescu told Romanian channel Realitatea Plus.
Georgescu’s supporters claimed on social media that RFK Jr “will most likely come” on December 5 to present a book called The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health.
Already called the Tiktok Messiah for his ultra-religious statements, Georgescu claims that Romania must be neutral and that there is no war in Ukraine.
Georgescu’s first-round victory in last week’s presidential election was made possible by a protest vote fueled by an unprecedented TikTok campaign, which raised questions in Bucharest and Brussels about election meddling.
Romanian authorities are calling on the European Commission to investigate TikTok for its breach of the EU Digital Services Act in connection with its massive influence campaign against an anti-EU, pro-Russian presidential candidate.
Romania recounts all presidential ballots
Meanwhile, a race has begun in the country to recount all the votes from the first round after another candidate raised allegations of possible electoral fraud.
Romania’s Constitutional Court has asked the country’s central electoral authority to recount and verify the ballots from the first round of Sunday’s presidential election.
If this changes the order of winners, then the first round can be repeated.
An environmental lawyer, RFK Jr was outspoken against vaccination during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Donald Trump chose him as Secretary of Health and promised to “make America healthy again.”
Kennedy is the nephew of former US President John F. Kennedy and the son of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, both of whom were assassinated.
After his surprise victory in the first round of elections last week, Georgescu’s network and connections are attracting more attention at home and abroad.
An “anti-system candidate” with ties to the system
Despite describing himself as an “anti-system candidate” running as an antidote to the old political class, Georgescu has been linked to the political establishment since the fall of communism.
In the early 1990s, he was a protégé of Mircea Malița, the Romanian ambassador to Switzerland and the USA during the communist era, whom he calls his mentor.
ADVERTISEMENTMalița opened to him the Club of Rome, an international organization of intellectuals and business leaders that emerged in the 1990s and included Romania’s powerful post-communist figures, including National Bank of Romania governor Mugur Isărescu and former presidents Emil Konstantinescu and Ion Iliescu.
Georgescu held various advisory positions in Romanian ministries until 2005.
Back in 2016, his name was cited on various websites, including the Russian government news site Sputnik, as a possible candidate for prime minister.
In 2018, Georgescu appeared in an interview on the domestic public service, in which he stated that Romania has a servile attitude towards the US and praised Russian Vladimir Putin.
ADVERTISEMENT“Vladimir Putin is a leader. He is one of the few leaders. He loves his country. Regardless of means,” Georgescu said on TVR.
In 2020, George Simion, another far-right presidential candidate, actively promoted Georgescu as prime minister of his newly formed AUR party, should the party come to power.
However, he quickly distanced himself from Georgescu after Georgescu declared in 2022 that Jon Antonescu, Romania’s World War II prime minister who enabled the Holocaust, and Corneliu Zelea Codreanu—another violent, anti-Semitic nationalist—were heroes.
From his appearances over the past few years to the statements made during this election campaign, Georgescu has not offered any coherent idea of how he would fulfill the role of president.
ADVERTISEMENTHowever, he was consistent in expressing radical, anti-European, pro-Russian and conspiracy theories and opinions. He stated, among other things, that he does not believe that a man walked on the moon and that a woman could never be president of Romania.
