Mircea Geoană announced his candidacy for the Presidency

The former Secretary General of NATO Mircea Geoană announced, on Wednesday, his candidacy for the Presidency: “Let’s roll up our sleeves and build a better country”. Geonă made this announcement on Facebook, one day after the effective termination of his mandate at the head of NATO.

“I’m running for president because I know we need real change! I could promise you a perfect country, to pose as the perfect politician, tell you all your problems will disappear overnight. But we all know that’s not the reality. We are not perfect. I’m not perfect. But you know what we can do? We can work. Let’s roll up our sleeves and build a better country. Romania does not need perfection; it needs leaders who listen, understand and act professionally. Let’s be reborn together!”, reads his Facebook post.

He also stated that it “won’t be easy” and he doesn’t promise miracles, but he does promise “something real”.

“I will be here for each of you, I will be a president for young people and pensioners, for Romanians at home and in the diaspora. I will be president for all Romanians, regardless of ethnicity or religion. I will be the president of the people and not of the parties. For me there are no PSDs, liberals, USRs, sovereignists or UDMRs, I am here to represent all of you. I will be the president of the Romanian nation, defender of our traditions and faith. But also open to modernity and progress. Times will not be easy, but together we can make them better.”

Geoana added that Romania does not need perfection, but “needs leaders who listen, understand and fight for you”.

A week ago, NATO announced the resignation of Mircea Geoană from the position of Deputy Secretary General of the North Atlantic Alliance, which he has held since 2019.

At the same time, Mircea Geoană, was decorated on Tuesday, September 10, with the NATO Order “Meritorious Service”, in recognition of his “exceptional activity in the service of the North Atlantic Alliance”. The decoration ceremony took place at the headquarters of the Alliance in Brussels and was hosted by Jens Stoltenberg, the Secretary General of NATO.

“Your perspective and experience were invaluable to me. (…) Thanks to you, we made progress in record time,” Stoltenberg declared at the award ceremony.

Mircea Geoană, aged 66, was the PSD candidate in the 2009 presidential elections. He lost then to Traian Băsescu with a difference of 70,000 votes. Geoană remained famous because on the evening of the elections, after the closing of the polls, he announced himself as the winner, so that on Monday morning, after the votes were counted, he lost the election.