Romania’s electoral body has rejected Calin Georgescu’s candidacy in the presidential election redo, after the far-right populist won the first round of last year’s race before a top court annulled the election.

The Romanian Central Election Bureau has officially barred far-right and pro-Russian candidate Calin Georgescu from participating in the country’s presidential election scheduled for May. The decision is expected to further escalate Romania’s ongoing political crisis,

By Iulian Ernst in Bucharest Romania’s Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) decided on March 9 to invalidate the presidential candidacy of Russia-backed far-right politician Calin Georgescu. The ruling is based on the Constitutional Court's decisions to annul last year's presidential elections and reject fellow far-right politician Diana Sosoaca's