{"id":1529,"date":"2024-09-04T07:00:40","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T07:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2024-09-04T07:00:40","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T07:00:40","slug":"mircea-geoana-officially-steps-down-from-nato-seat-to-run-for-romanias-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=1529","title":{"rendered":"Mircea Geoan\u0103 officially steps down from NATO seat to run for Romania&#8217;s presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NATO Deputy Secretary General <strong>Mircea Geoan\u0103<\/strong> announced that he is resigning from the North Atlantic Alliance effective September 10, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/romania.europalibera.org\/a\/mircea-geoana-demisie-nato-candidatura-presedintie\/33104163.html?mc_cid=c5c389f506&amp;mc_eid=cd1f92f96c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Europa Liber\u0103<\/a> quoting both the Romanian politician and sources familiar with the developments.\u00a0NATO later confirmed the information.<\/p>\n<p>Geoan\u0103 would formally announce his candidacy for the presidential elections in Romania immediately after the ceremony, according to G4media.ro.<\/p>\n<p>Mircea Geoan\u0103 wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mircea.geoana\/posts\/pfbid0X27vnf6nBw8o2CPrhJuqhyWN7JrsapXq4uVHVbngfzcqjPZNyxCfujv3EDesmScNl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post<\/a> on his Facebook page: &#8220;Being in the leadership of NATO was the honor of my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The resignation, as well as Geoan\u0103&#8217;s presidential ambitions in his country, Romania, were previously announced in principle \u2013 with only the timing depending on finding a replacement.<\/p>\n<p>On September 3, Geoan\u0103 reportedly discussed again with the Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, on his resignation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to NATO&#8217;s note published on September 3, German Boris Ruge, the Alliance&#8217;s current Deputy Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy, will take over the position of Deputy Secretary General of NATO.<\/p>\n<p>Geoan\u0103, a former president of the Social Democratic Party, former presidential candidate on PSD&#8217;s ticket, and co-founder of a political construct with Romanian politician Marian Vanghelie, has actively campaigned for the presidency of Romania as an independent candidate over the past months.<\/p>\n<p><em>iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source: NATO website)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoan\u0103 announced that he is resigning from the North Atlantic Alliance effective September 10, according to Europa Liber\u0103 quoting both the Romanian politician and sources familiar with the developments.\u00a0NATO later confirmed the information. Geoan\u0103 would formally announce his candidacy for the presidential elections in Romania immediately after the ceremony, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}