Romania\u2019s central election authority on Sunday barred far-right pro-Russian candidate Calin Georgescu from running in May\u2019s presidential election re-run. <\/p>\n
The rejection of his candidacy, which was condemned by far-right party leaders as undemocratic, can be challenged at the constitutional court. <\/p>\n
Dozens of supporters of the populist Georgescu gathered outside the election bureau shouting \u201cFreedom\u201d and briefly tried to force their way through the security cordon. <\/p>\n
Georgescu submitted his candidacy for the May ballot re-run on Friday amid doubts that he would be allowed to run. <\/p>\n
Romania\u2019s highest court annulled the ballot two days before the second round of voting in December, citing allegations of Russian interference in Georgescu\u2019s favor, which Moscow has denied. <\/p>\n
Members of US President Donald Trump\u2019s administration called Romania\u2019s canceled election an example of European governments suppressing freedom of speech and political opponents. <\/p>\n
Tech billionaire and Trump adviser Elon Musk called the election authority\u2019s decision \u201ccrazy\u201d on his social media platform X. <\/p>\n
Georgescu is under criminal investigation on six counts, including membership in a fascist organization and communicating false information about campaign financing. He has denied all wrongdoing. <\/p>\n
This is a developing story and will be updated. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Romania\u2019s central election authority on Sunday barred far-right pro-Russian candidate Calin Georgescu from running in May\u2019s presidential election re-run. The rejection of his candidacy, which was condemned by far-right party leaders as undemocratic, can be challenged at the constitutional court. Dozens of supporters of the populist Georgescu gathered outside the election bureau shouting \u201cFreedom\u201d and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}