Calin Georgescu submitted, in his file of candidacy for the presidential elections, an annex to the declaration of wealth he did not sign.
Calin Georgescu. Photo: Inquam Photos / Octav Ganea
The statement contains information about the goods received “FREE for free” During the presidential campaign, including the car used from Horațiu Potra. These goods had not been declared in the file submitted last year.
Due to the lack of signature on the respective annex, the meeting of the Central Electoral Bureau was suspended for 30 minutes. After the meeting resumed, Georgescu’s candidacy was invalidated with 10 votes against and only 4 favorable votes, from the representatives of Aur, SOS, can and USR.
The other BEC members, including magistrates and representatives of the Permanent Electoral Authority, voted against. After this decision, the representatives of gold and they left the room and asked for their vote not to be recorded.
Calin Georgescu has the possibility to challenge this decision at the Constitutional Court of Romania.
Annex with completions and checks
Antena 3 CNN reported on the content of the annex written by Călin Georgescu.
“Compared to the information presented above, I understand to make the following details/clarifications:
By receiving the economic-financial situation of my and my wife, I found differences from the declaration of wealth revised in November 2024 (following the purchase during the election campaign in which I currently live, from Mogoșoaia commune) and due to unintentional escapes, caused by:
1. The ignorance by my wife of the fact that he holds actions from a coupon worth 100 RON (1 million old lei) acquired by his parents in 1996, when the privatization of MEBO took place, and invested by them in the same year at the Constanta convex company to mention that my wife did not know about the existence of these actions, and that it did not do it. Present, from BRD, the dividends related to these actions, of which he also did not know.
2. The ignorance of the fact that my wife holds accounts at the Raiffeisen Bank, accounts resulting from migration in 2013 to this bank of all Citibank employee accounts, his former employer. The proof of the good faith is that my wife did not live in Romania at that time, given that our family had a fiscal residence and residence in Austria between 2012-2021, as well as the fact that these accounts have, the majority, zero balance and, at the same time, do not present transactions carried out, so far, through them.
3. The ignorance of the fact that the support received from some supporters, who have provided me, for free, the right of use of cars for making trips to the country and in the locality, it is necessary to be declared in the form of help. Because this advantage was not income carrier, but it represents the advantage of saving some expenses that I would have made using taxi services, in the spirit of good faith and transparency I specify here that I have estimated the following savings, and not revenues:
A. From the advantage represented by the free use of the Austral Renault car, for 7 months (September 2024 to the present), at an equivalent daily trips with the “Uber” taxi service on average 200 lei, I estimate that I saved the amount of 42,000 RON;
B. From the advantage represented by the free use of the Mercedes GLE450 car, for 4 months (May 2024 – September 2024), at an equivalent daily trips with the “Uber” taxi service on average 200 lei, I estimate that I saved the amount of 24,000 RON.
4. The erroneous understanding of the threshold of 5000 euros for declaring the balance from the accounts led to the omission of two current accounts opened at OTP and two revolut accounts with hips below 5000 EUR, but in value cumulatively over 5000 EUR.
5. The wrong understanding of the revenue reporting base brought to the report of revenues from 2024, instead of 2023.
6. The wrong understanding of the reporting mode: In the declared global amount I also declared the interest, but I did not know that they must be highlighted separately, as a category of distinct revenues. The money was declared in the amounts mentioned in the accounts. The proof of good faith is that this money has a bank traceability.
7. The erroneous understanding of the reporting mode: I declared the amounts obtained from the sale of a land in 2023, but I did not know that they need to be highlighted separately, by reference to the fact that the price was paid in different currencies. The proof of the good faith is the fact that I declared this money at the banking unit, I constituted a deposit, they have traceability in the account and, for an increased transparency, I included them in this statement, although it represents a source of income from October 2023.
8. Currently I am a doctor university lecturer in the Department of Environmental Engineering and Engineering Sciences applied to the Faculty of Sciences, Pitești Center, National University of Science and Technology Polytechnic Bucharest. The employment contract is suspended until the end of the academic year 2025.
9. The company Cristela-Elena Georgescu PFA fulfills the conditions of operating/carrying out the activity classified in the CAEN class:
4791 retail trade through human houses or through the Internet
7022 Business and Management Consulting Activities
7312 Media Representation Services
8559 Other forms of Education NCA
10. The company Cristela Georgescu Education SRL fulfills the operating/conducting conditions of the activity classified in the CAEN class:
4791 retail trade through human houses or through the Internet
5811 Book editing activities
7022 Business and Management Consulting Activities
7312 Media Representation Services
8559 Other forms of Education NCA ”
