Calin Georgescu anticipates an “inevitable” transition of Ukrainian lands to their historic owners, including Bucharest
Calin Georgescu, the politician whose first-round victory in the Romanian presidential election was overturned by the Constitutional Court, has argued that the borders claimed by Ukraine were artificially drawn and will inevitably change.
A staunch critic of Western policies, Georgescu made the remarks on Wednesday during an interview on YouTube in which he dicussed changes to European borders after World War II, which resulted in a transfer of territories to Soviet Ukraine. Georgescu said he expects Ukraine to be fragmented as part of a peace deal with Russia, along historical lines.
”This will happen 100%. The path to an outcome like that is inevitable,” he asserted. “Ukraine is an invented state.”
Parts of the historic areas that Romania ceded to Ukraine following the war are “of interest” to Bucharest, Georgescu said, adding that Hungary and Poland could also claim historic lands in a hypothetical breakup of Ukraine.
Georgescu made headlines in November when he unexpectedly garnered 23% of the vote in the first round of the presidential election in Romania, a NATO member. However, the Constitutional Court annulled the results shortly before the second round, citing intelligence documents alleging ‘irregularities’ in the campaign.
Subsequent media reports revealed that Georgescu’s candidacy was boosted by a firm closely linked with the pro-Western National Liberal Party (PNL), seemingly to undermine another candidate. The Romanian government has nevertheless claimed that Russia was behind the interference scheme though the source of funding a controversial social media campaign has been concretely identified as the country’s liberal party. Georgescu currently leads in opinion polls ahead of the upcoming election re-run in May, and is projected to get 38% of the vote.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin previously warned about the threat of potential separatism in Western Ukraine, driven by ethnic minorities’ wish “to return to their historic homeland,” with potential support from foreign governments.
”In that sense, only Russia could serve as a guarantor of Ukrainian territorial integrity,” he claimed in late 2023. “If [Ukrainians] don’t want that, so be it. History will set things straight. We will not stand in the way, but neither will we relinquish what is rightfully ours.”
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