The independent candidate for the Presidency Mircea Geoană stated, on Tuesday evening, that he became an engineer employed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs because he was never satisfied with what he knew and participated in the first contest organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs after the Revolution.
Mircea Geoană, independent candidate for the Presidency of Romania PHOTO: Facebook
Geoana claims that he was not helped by his father, a former general in the Romanian Army and head of the Civil Defense Command.
“At the time of the Revolution, I was in Bucharest. I remember, the evening before the columns of workers came, I was on the side streets at the barrier at the Intercontinental, after that, like all of us, I followed the events that unfolded. At that time I was an engineer at Energomontaj and at that moment I was just after 5 years of work since I graduated from the Polytechnic, deputy foreman at Energomontaj Bucharest”, said Mircea Geoană, in an election debate on Antena 3, writes news.ro.
Asked how he got from being an engineer at Energomontaj to being an employee of the MAE, Geoană stated: “I am a man who is never satisfied with what I know”.
“In 1988 I studied Law, no one forced me, I entered the Faculty of Law third and at the moment when in March 1990 the first competition after the Revolution opened at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and under the conditions in which I was not allowed to travel to The West never (…) I left to make up for lost time. I passed the exam, I spoke French, I spoke English, I started to learn Spanish”, added Geoana.
He stated that in March 1990 he started work and the exam was earlier.
When told that the MAE does not confirm that there was an employment exam, Geoană stated: “I took the exam and entrance exam”.
Asked if he was helped by his father, former general in the Romanian Army and head of the Civil Defense Command, Mircea Geoană denied it.
“In no way. I have always believed in meritocracy. I have always demonstrated that wherever I go I do a serious job. I entered the lowest step in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, I went up step by step. I became the youngest ambassador in America, my father didn’t help me, I helped myself because I did a good job”Geoana also affirmed.
