Elon Musk slams Romanian authorities for banning far-right frontrunner Călin Georgescu. It’s another win for the Kremlin.

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Romania's government is taking a bold stand, expelling Russian diplomats over what it sees as a threat to its sovereignty and democratic stability.

On Wednesday, prosecutors from Romania’s General Prosecutor’s Office detained Călin Georgescu while he was driving and took him in for questioning. He is

It highlighted that Moscow engages in various forms of interference, including influence campaigns, public messaging, and attempts to manipulate democratic processes, all with the aim of eroding public trust in Romanian authorities and criticizing the country’s EU and NATO membership.

Călin Georgescu, the far-right winner of the first round of the annulled presidential elections in Romania, was arrested on Wednesday at 12:00 GMT. "It seems that Bucharest is paving the way to block Georgescu's participation in the elections,

Prosecutors are investigating a series of alleged offences, after Georgescu came from nowhere to win the first round.

The case at hand is a good example of this. A curious fact is that Georgescu worked for the United Nations and was one of the leaders of the Club of Rome, an organisation that supported the protests of Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. It is a curious CV for a political leader who includes "antiglobalism" as one of the ingredients of his speeches.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rejected a request to overturn a Romanian court's annulment of the presidential election, declaring the application inadmissible on Thursday in the case of