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To: Thomas M. who wrote (325700)	3/9/2025 8:10:11 PM
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Here's a clue why the US is cancelling Romanian democracy: Romanian election frontrunner calls Zelensky a "semi-dictator" Calin Georgescu, a Romanian politician whose first-round victory in the presidential vote was overturned by the nation’s Constitutional Court, has branded Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky a “semi-dictator,” who is afraid of holding an election and keeps sending young men to “hell” on the battlefield. Georgescu, who is a vocal opponent of Western support for Ukraine amid the conflict with Russia, said on Thursday that he has “all the empathy and respect” for the Ukrainian people, but he also has issues with “corruption and the false attitude” of the politicians in Kiev. “I would like to ask the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry how many cases of high-level corruption there have been in Ukraine since the war began. How much European money has been stolen by them through a European and implicitly Romanian attempt to help Ukraine?” he stressed. The Romanian election frontrunner lashed out at Zelensky, saying that he has “a problem with semi-dictators who put their own interests and those of the group they represent before the national interest.” “Why does Zelensky, like Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, not allow free elections? Are they afraid? How many families have sent their children to the hell of the battlefield to never return? How many times has Zelensky asked for dialogue before asking for weapons? Never!” he insisted. Zelensky remains in power in Ukraine despite his term having officially expired in May of last year. He canceled the presidential vote, citing the martial law that he had imposed due to the ongoing conflict. He also refuses to cancel his own 2022 decree banning him from negotiating with Russian President Vladimir Putin. rt.com Tom