I thank the Romanian people for their sacrifice

Călin Georgescu, the independent presidential candidate, declared, after the announcement of the exit polls for the first round of the presidential elections, that the main message of the Romanians was one of “peace”.

Georgescu ranked 3rd, according to the first exit-poll results, a short distance from Elena Lasconi and in front of George Simion.

Călin Georgescu: “I thank the Romanian people for their effort, sacrifice and responsibility”

“I thank the Romanian people for their effort, sacrifice and responsibility. Thanks also for the awakening in consciousness that was and is phenomenal. Thank you for answering my call because, as I said, I was not and we are not in an election campaign. We are a work in a work with each other and all of us with God, the economic insecurity imposed on the Romanian people for 35 years has today turned into insecurity for the political parties.

Tonight, the Romanian people shouted “peace” and shouted very loudly, extremely loudly. If the political parties had had less time to listen and less time to speak, perhaps this cry would not have been so loud. This cry for peace was not a cry of joy, it was a cry of suffering. This I want to be very clear and very precisely pointed out.

This Sunday, the 30th after Pentecost, is the parable of the rich young man in the Orthodox Church. At the liturgy, the essence is the following: no matter how rich you are, you are in vain if you do not have God. The Romanian people passed through the eye of the needle today, and the oligarchic system did not. In other words, the rich of the system, today, in Romania, have become poorer, and the people, the poor Romanian people, have become richer from this point of view.

“Today, through the lit candle of hope, the courage to be Romanian was reborn”

Everything that has happened today we say is a stunning awakening to what has happened in the history of this people and at the same time, everything that has happened to us, whether it was right or wrong, matters that we must understand , to be responsible, nothing else.

We have a duty to rebuild Romania and that is the most important thing. No matter what happened, the Romanian people understood that through the family, the backbone of the Romanian society, and no matter what happens to the small family and me, personally, the big family that means my people, no matter who voted for me or who didn’t, I will respect, help and encourage them all.

Through courage I wrote and the history of the Romanian people was written, and today, through the lit candle of hope, the courage to be Romanian was reborn. It is the most important thing I am saying tonight, because the Romanian people have chosen to stop kneeling, to stop being invaded, to stop being oppressed, to stop being humiliated. We are strong, we are brave. Many of us voted and there will be many of us in the second round as well.

I thank everyone, we are waiting with confidence and devotion for everything that the Romanian people wrote in history and at this moment it is clear that we all said: we are not doing politics, we are making history. Thank you all”, Călin Georgescu said.