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Lasconi stated Georgescu, who has campaigned on lowering imports and growing Romanian home meals and power manufacturing, needed to unhitch Romania from the European and worldwide monetary mainstream and NATO, leaving the nation at Russia’s mercy.
Accusing Georgescu of wanting Romania to be remoted like earlier than the 1989 revolution, she summoned up photos etched into the Romanian collective reminiscence from the final years of Communism — poverty and chilly residences with out heating — to sketch a darkish image of what a Georgescu presidency would deliver.
Lasconi additionally referred to her personal modest upbringing, speaking about her mom’s onerous work as a dishwasher at a number of eating places within the small western city of Hațeg, the place Lasconi grew up. “All of her life she washed glasses, with chilly water, for 12 to 14 hours a day,” she stated, including that she and her household knew what it was prefer to work onerous for a residing with out benefiting from political privileges.
Before her presidential run, most Romanians knew Lasconi as a information presenter on the tv community PRO TV, the place she labored for 25 years. Her time on the community included stints as a battle correspondent in Kosovo and Afghanistan, in addition to profitable Romania’s model of Celebrity Masterchef in 2013.
Lasconi left journalism in 2020 to run for mayor of the small metropolis of Câmpulung with the USR. She received a four-year time period and was re-elected in June this 12 months, boasting of bringing tens of hundreds of thousands of EU funds to the city. That identical month, she was elected chief of USR and have become the reformist party’s presidential candidate.
Her political profession has not been with out controversy. She opposed same-sex marriage and introduced in 2023 that she voted in favor of a 2018 referendum to ban it. Her stance, which was at odds together with her party’s, led to her elimination from the USR’s record within the European Parliament elections this 12 months and a public rebuke from her daughter, although she has since stated she helps civil partnerships for same-sex {couples}.
