Romanian election frontrunner describes Ukraine as ‘an invented state’
(MENAFN) Calin Georgescu, the Romanian politician whose victory in the first round of the presidential election was later annulled by the Constitutional Court, has described Ukraine as an "invented state" and predicted that its borders would change. During a YouTube interview on Wednesday, Georgescu discussed European border changes after World War II, suggesting that territories were transferred to Soviet Ukraine and that Ukraine's eventual fragmentation was inevitable as part of a peace deal with Russia.
He claimed that parts of territories Romania ceded to Ukraine following the war were "of interest" to Bucharest, adding that Hungary and Poland could also stake claims to historic lands in a hypothetical breakup of Ukraine.
Georgescu made headlines in November after securing 23% of the vote in Romania’s presidential election, but the Constitutional Court annulled the results before the second round, citing alleged campaign irregularities. Reports later indicated that Georgescu’s candidacy was supported by a company linked to Romania’s pro-Western National Liberal Party, sparking accusations of interference, though the Romanian government has suggested that Russia was behind the controversy. Georgescu now leads in opinion polls ahead of a re-run of the election scheduled for May.
Russian President Vladimir Putin had previously warned of potential separatism in western Ukraine, asserting that Russia could serve as a guarantor of Ukraine’s territorial integrity if ethnic minorities sought to return to their historic homelands.
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