Unity Day - the day of the division of the sovereignist movement

The sovereignist movement split on the Great Unity Day, that is, on the National Day, right in Alba Iulia. Those who proclaim themselves the holders of political truth, who affirm that the people must unite and take back their country and who claim that the current political decision-makers are illegitimate, were no longer together in Alba Iulia, but divided into three.

Thus, in the capital of the Union there were three separate rallies, three tribes, three ambitions, three parallel realities that clearly showed that Romanian sovereignism is not only not united, but is tearing itself apart from within.

At his rally, Călin Georgescu said: "Today, December 1, 2025, I do not feel joy, but pain. I am shaken to see that people are just waiting to tick a certain day, when every day should be National Day. The Romanian soul is not for sale. We are obliged to keep alive the moment when the Romanian nation stood upright in the face of history. Let us take our fate into our own hands. Fight to become aware. It is not political reform that saves the country, but the Christian family, love of neighbor and Jesus. I call you today to the greatest fight so far. The fight with internal enemies. With the fear that is greater than freedom. With the expectation of the external savior that is the most parsimonious form of slavery. With the illusion of good, the area in which we find ourselves today. These are the enemies of Romania. The future of our country is only within it. Inner renaissance is within our reach. Maybe someone is wondering. I respect all partners in Europe, but I will not build the future of my country according to their will”.

The one who claimed last year after the first round of the presidential elections, an election that was later annulled by the CCR, that "Romanians have awakened in consciousness”, now says "Fight to become conscious!”, which denotes an inconsistency in his political discourse. If you are awakened in consciousness, are you no longer conscious, but must you become conscious? At least that is what Călin Georgescu believes: awakening in consciousness does not automatically make you conscious. Should we then understand that all those who voted for him last year and who support him daily are unconscious? That is to say, do they not know what they are doing?

Moreover, at the end of May Călin Georgescu announced that he was leaving politics. But inconsistency is characteristic of him and we have noticed since then that every visit to the Ilfov IPJ, on the occasion of the weekly check of the judicial control, has turned into an occasion for political statements by Călin Georgescu.

• Divisive speech by Călin Georgescu

And in Alba Iulia, Georgescu continued: "Let us take our fate into our own hands. Fight to become aware. It is not political reform that saves the country, but the Christian family, love of neighbor and Jesus.”

And, to make his speech about the Christian family more convincing, Călin Georgescu was accompanied on the stage in Alba Iulia by an Orthodox priest, who spoke to their supporters about the importance of the 1918 unification. The presence of the prelate next to Călin Georgescu could be interpreted as a visible sign that the Romanian Orthodox Church provides supporters for a politician and for those who promote legionnaireism. Călin Georgescu is on criminal trial for promoting the Legionary Movement and Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, and the presence of an Orthodox priest alongside him raises numerous questions. Which, it seems, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, does not ask himself, because, otherwise, we would have witnessed yesterday the immediate sanctioning of the priest close to Georgescu.

This would have been necessary also in light of the fact that Călin Georgescu's speech from Alba Iulia is not one of unity, but a speech of division.

"I call you today to the greatest fight so far. The fight with internal enemies. (...). The future of our country is only within it. Internal renaissance is within our reach. Perhaps someone is wondering: I respect all partners in Europe, but I will not build the future of my country according to their will”, Călin Georgescu stated.

Respect for European partners, but the future built alone, from within, on a national level, is a blatant contrast to political discourse, especially since our country is a member state of the European Union. Then who establishes the meaning of internal rebirth? What are its limits in order not to witness a national re-education like the one in Piteşti during the communist regime again?

To all this is added the fact that the country can only be saved by "the Christian family, love of neighbor and Jesus”, as Călin Georgescu claims, in a speech strikingly similar to that of the Legionary Movement from the interwar period. We hereby inform Călin Georgescu that in Romania not all citizens are Christians. We have Romanian citizens who are Muslims, Mosaics, atheists or who are followers of Eastern religions. Through his speech, Călin Georgescu excludes them it's practically all of them from the mission of saving the country, from the internal rebirth, dividing Romanian society instead of uniting it.

• Călin Georgescu, separate opinion from the other sovereignist leaders, regarding Sunday's elections in the Capital

And there's something else: both before the event in Alba Iulia and after, Călin Georgescu disavowed, unlike the sovereignist leaders of AUR and POT, the partial local elections of December 7 for the position of general mayor of the Capital, elections that he stated were illegal, because their organizers illegally occupy public offices after the annulment of last year's presidential elections. To reinforce this opinion, Călin Georgescu reiterated yesterday that he does not support any candidate for the position of general mayor, so neither Anca Alexandrescu, supported by AUR, nor George Burcea, the POT candidate. A sovereignist against sovereignist political formations.

Regarding this last aspect, Anamaria Gavrilă, president of POT (Young People's Party), who was also in Alba Iulia on December 1, but did not participate in the AUR rally, nor in that of Călin Georgescu, nor in that of Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă, explicitly denounced, on Romania TV, the fragmentation of the sovereignist movement: "People are very confused and no longer understand who is with whom, who is on which. They managed to pit the Georgesists against the Aurists, now they are dividing the waters even more." She continued with a severe indictment of the decision taken by George Simion regarding the support of Anca Alexandrescu for the Capital City Hall: "She presents herself as a sovereignist candidate. We need to clarify a little, what it means to be the sovereignist candidate. It means that we must have all agreed, because it is an image that tries to be similar to what happened in March, when Mr. Georgescu, George Simion and I discussed and established what the best path is for Romania. Well, we, the sovereignists, (...) do not want people who were in the system and we are very confused how a candidate managed to establish himself as the sovereignist candidate, although there was no discussion before, no debate. We must not confuse the packaging with the product. This lady, if you look into the past, we will see her close to those who are the negative characters of Romanian history in the last 35 years. She was part of the propaganda that these people and parties they took her for 35 years. You can't say that your thinking, your state, was one for 35 years and a year ago it changed overnight and, all of a sudden, you emanate this sovereignty from all your poles, because that's not the case. I didn't even receive a direct phone call from her, I received a phone call from someone else, to be told that of course you would support her. I said, what do you mean of course? I was put in front of a fait accompli and I was told that otherwise I would betray the sovereignists. I would dare to say that when someone puts you in front of a fait accompli and says "you have to support her, otherwise you will show that you are betraying the sovereignists', then it blows my mind. Mr. Georgescu didn't behave like that. We should have had some meetings and chosen the best person. (...) We can't go after tricks. If that means dissociating ourselves, that's what we will do".

Moreover, the POT leader also said that her party is different from AUR and that she refuses to make deals before the elections, but after, depending on the percentages that each political party will obtain.

• Simion, abandoned by those who came to the AUR rally

As for AUR, although leader George Simion participated in the Union March, the real number of his supporters does not coincide with the number of participants in the December 1 rally, as a large part of them abandoned the re-elected AUR president - who ran alone, against no one - and went to the rally of Călin Georgescu, whom they proclaimed by shouts as the current president of the country. The fact that AUR fans, voters and sympathizers moved to the front and replaced Simion with Georgescu was also caused by internal tensions within that political group, where lawyer Gheorghe Piperea found himself no longer holding any position in the party, apart from that of representative, as a MEP, in Strasbourg. Apart from Piperea, there were other AUR leaders who were replaced from their positions on November 30. This despite George Simion's message on the same day in which he said: "There were instigators who threatened us and tried to thwart the Union Day. We come here, in front of the Cathedral, so that all sovereignists can be together. The system will not succeed".

The irony is that the sovereignists were not even physically together, because each wanted their own event. Simion talks about the sabotage of the "system", but the reality is that the very inability of the leaders to organize a joint demonstration shows the great failure: sovereignism is torn apart by its own vanities.

Diana Şoşoacă's vanity is also at stake. She entered Alba Iulia dressed in a long sheepskin coat, late compared to the other sovereignist leaders who were participating in the events dedicated to National Day. Şoşoacă proclaimed her own version of sovereignty in a city square, among her own supporters, while the patriotic song "Cross the Carpathians, Romanian Battalions" blared continuously from a portable speaker carried on the shoulder by one of them. Her speech, full of pathos and apocalyptic descriptions, was followed by a song performed on stage by Diana Şoşoacă, the sounds barely audible from the sheepskin coat in which she was wrapped.

For the sovereignists who would have expected that December 1, the National Day of Romania, the Day of the Great Union, would be an occasion for a joint declaration of the entire movement, to be a demonstration of cohesion, a proof that politicians who talk about nation, identity and sovereignty are capable of leaving their pride aside at least for a few hours, everything turned into a great disappointment. Alba Iulia became the living map of the sovereignist rupture: three rallies, three scenes, three speeches that can only be reached through criticism, suspicion and competition. Călin Georgescu called for spiritual rebirth, George Simion for the fight against the "system", and Şoşoacă offered a new spectacle of no such thing. None of them spoke about the need for unity among them. When Simion said "let's be together", he was not referring to the other sovereignists, but to his own voters and sympathizers. When Georgescu says "The future of our country is only inside it", he seems to mean by "inside" only his own group. When Şoşoacă swears "never again to be manipulated", he avoids seeing that it was precisely the manipulation of egos that produced the ridiculous spectacle in Alba Iulia.