Millionaire John Ion Banu, presidential candidate, says he met Călin Georgescu "before": "We don't have the same ideas"

John Ion Banu is a mechanical engineer who emigrated to the United States in 1985, where he founded the Romanian-American League. Banu recalled that he ran for president in 2019 and that this will be his last time running. "If I don't run now, I'm not running," he said. The article Millionaire John Ion Banu, presidential candidate, says he met Călin Georgescu "before": "We don't have the same ideas" appeared first on Romania TV.

Someone asked me how exactly John-Ion Banu collected 200 thousand signatures and why he did it now, after collecting the same number in 2019, then collecting about ten times fewer votes at the polls. He is not the only one in this situation: of the 14 candidates on the ballots of November 24, 2024, six received between 11,246 and 95,782 votes. Three of these six – Terheș, Popescu and Predoiu – are in the race again, so you will find them on the …

Romanian-American millionaire John Ion Banu, an independent candidate in the Romanian presidential elections, advocates for the right of Romanian citizens to bear arms for "their defense and democracy." The statement was made in the context of being asked what he thinks about the war in Ukraine and our position in NATO, responding that his opinion is "a little different" from what Romanian generals believe.