Why did you decide to enter politics at this age? What are your reasons and what qualifies you?

I know many might consider my entry into politics premature. However, if you look at Romanian politics, which are regressing each day, you realize that the outlook is extremely bleak. I can foresee nothing but horrors for my generation, whose cultural and professional training is at rock bottom and whose aspirations for the future are minimalist and decadent. But the affluence in which we are lied to believe we live thanks to the free world is a sham, with the standard of living for many even lower than it was under communism. Three things qualify me: professional expertise, education and national conscience. My current expertise is related to the fight for freedom of expression and of the press in Romania. I have fought for this through my my coordination of the Gold press group for the last four years, the most sanctioned Romanian media group in recent history, as well as from my position as executive secretary of the New Press Club, founded by important people in the Romanian press, with almost 1 000 journalists registered and a board made up of personalities such as Sorin Roșca Stănescu, Bogdan Comaroni, Răzvan Savaliuc and Cozmin Gușă. Something else I I already have expertise in is sports reform. We can no longer be a country of people who exempt themselves from P.E., because that is what Romania has unfortunately become. I am a former professional athlete, I realize the importance of sport for the health of a nation, but also for its prestige. From the point of view of my studies in the West, I managed to obtain professional expertise, taking into account the fact that Romania no longer has universities in the top 1000 in the world and I managed to enter a program ranked 10th worldwide. I achieved this through intelligence and personal efforts, considering that the master’s degree in Vienna had no fees, so the competition for access to the program was fierce. Moreover, the six years I spent in the West gave me a rounded vision, allowing me to understand the Westerners’ favorable approaches that we can apply and that we can adopt. I also understood the Westerners’ bankrupting approaches, which have caused both the EU’s economic decline and the mass brainwashing of the population. We do not need these approaches. However, Romania needs expertise – this is precisely why, from my position as president of the AASE – Association of Foreign School Graduates – I am campaigning for the return of qualified young people to the country, and I must find the legal ways to succeed in creating such a framework. Last but not least, I believe that a politician must have the vocation of national conscience: Romania’s politics must be built on the unwritten contract between the current generations, the past generations and the generations that will follow us. Any policies that are not guided by this paradigm fall into the category of betrayal of the Romanian nation.

Why S.O.S.? Why Diana Șoșoaca?

S.O.S. because it is currently the only party that promotes patriotic policies. Moreover, S.O.S. is the party with the greatest potential for renewal: it is not hermetically closed, like the PNL and PSD, and it does not promote people on pecuniary criteria, like AUR. Diana Șoșoacă, because she selflessly worked to create this framework, through which patriotic people with expertise can stand up to the progressive-globalist excesses that are sweeping Romania. I confess that the S.O.S. option was also influenced by the great injustice done to Diana Șoșoaca by blocking her presidential candidacy, a candidacy that could have at least turned into a qualification for the second round. It is clear that an important patriotic project for Romania has been blocked, and that is why I accepted to run for SOS Romania, not only out of a spirit of revolt, but also out of solidarity and responsibility.

What does it mean to be a patriot?

Patriotism means courage, justice and national conscience. A patriot has the courage to defend the interests of his or her nation against the interests of other nations, including against the astronomical and totally unjustified profits obtained by the large multinational companies, which invariably advocate globalism for pecuniary reasons and the subjugation of weak states. A patriot is upright, and thus opposes Western decadence and moral relativism, however tempting they may be, because he realizes that these scourges are not compatible with godlike human nature, and that they turn us, as famous Romanian philosopher Petre Țuțea said, into monkeys in clothes. As I said in my answer to the first question, a patriot has a national conscience, and thus understands that Romania’s politics must be built on the basis of an unwritten contract between the current, past and future generations. Moreover, being a patriot means defending your nation by fighting for peace: peace is the prerogative of patriots. Large and warlike nations cannot be categorized as patriotic. A patriot doesn’t want to cancel the sovereignty of another, he wants to strengthen his own.

By Roberto Casseli