Videos circulating on social media have revealed that the police in Romania’s increasingly corrupt, globalist-authoritarian state have conducted house raids on alternative media figures accused of involvement in voter bribery during Călin Georgescu’s 2024 presidential campaign.
Amid a nationwide crackdown on supporters of Călin Georgescu, Romanian police, acting under the direction of prosecutors, carried out 17 raids across the capital, Bucharest, and nine other counties on Thursday. The raids mainly targeted TikTok influencers suspected of supporting the anti-establishment candidate, according to reports from the Romanian press.
Perchezitii in dosarul Georgescu pentru coruperea alegatorilor. Vizati sunt Peschir si Makaveli pic.twitter.com/qfwQXcweyX
— aktual24.ro (@ak24ro) March 20, 2025
Among those raided was TikTok personality Makaveli (real name: Alexandru Virgil Zidaru), known for his anti-establishment views and connections to right-wing MEP Diana Iovanovici-Sosoaca.
Sosoaca, an MEP for SOS Romania, one of Romania’s three populist right parties, was barred from last year’s election after the Constitutional Court ruled that her anti-NATO, anti-EU rhetoric and support for closer ties with Russia were disqualifying factors.
Georgescu, a vocal critic of NATO, the EU, and aid to Ukraine, achieved an unexpected victory in the first round of last year’s election, garnering some 23% of the central-eastern European nation’s vote to the establishment’s dismay.
Celebrations were short-lived, however, as it didn’t take long for Romania’s politicized Constitutional Court to annul the results, citing funding irregularities and intelligence reports that claimed Russia had influenced the election.
To this day, no evidence of Georgescu’s wrongdoing has been revealed, yet authorities have accused social media influencers of influencing public opinion. Like MEP Diana Iovanovici-Sosoaca, Romania’s election authority has banned Georgescu from running, even though he had been leading in the polls with 44% of the first-round vote.
Romania, Verifield poll:
Presidential election
Georgescu (*): 45% (+34)
Antonescu (*-S&D|EPP): 20% (n.a.)
Dan (*-RE): 14% (n.a.)
Lasconi (USR-RE): 8% (-11)
Şoșoacă (S.O.S.RO-NI): 3% (n.a.)+/- vs. 20-21 November 2024
Fieldwork: 14-18 February 2025
Sample size: 1,000— Europe Elects (@EuropeElects) March 6, 2025
US Vice President JD Vance, last month during his keynote speech at the Munich Security Conference, condemned the court’s election annulment.
“The situation got so bad that this December, Romania canceled the results of a presidential election based on the flimsy suspicions of an intelligence agency and enormous pressure from its continental neighbors,” Vance exclaimed. This, predictably, angered the Eurocrats in attendance.
https://x.com/daily_romania/status/1903492882654233028
Today, the U.S. Embassy in Bucharest released a written Romanian translation of Vance’s speech.
— Daily Romania (@daily_romania) March 22, 2025
On Friday, the General Prosecutor’s Office announced that it had ordered the preventive arrest of businessman and TikTok influencer Bogdan Peschir, who stands accused of financing Georgescu’s campaign with hundreds of thousands of dollars in digital gifts and transfers.
Finantatorul campaniei lui Georgescu, obligat sa-si dea jos masca si ochelarii pic.twitter.com/QMvpvqxb0f
— aktual24.ro (@ak24ro) March 20, 2025
According to official records, using his TikTok handle “bogpr,” Peschir allegedly “made payments totaling $381,000 between October 24 and November 24, 2024, to users of various TikTok accounts promoting candidate Călin Georgescu, including after the official campaign period had ended”—a violation of Romanian law.
Peschir has denied directly financing Georgescu’s campaign, stating that while some of his donations went to the candidate’s supporters, others were directed toward charity, non-political TikTok accounts, and even accounts supporting other candidates.
Peschir has insisted that his donations were personal and voluntary, likening them to “Elon Musk supporting [U.S. President Donald] Trump” in last year’s presidential election. He has also denied any affiliation with Georgescu’s campaign.
His lawyer condemned the arrest, calling it politically motivated.
Presently, the Trump administration is said to be discussing potential measures against Romania’s globalist deep state following the ban on Călin Georgescu’s candidacy. According to reports, one option under consideration is revoking Romania’s participation in the Visa Waiver Program.
