Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Romanian far-right populist Calin Georgescu has appealed against the country’s Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) decision to bar him from participating in May’s presidential election. Constitutional court judges will meet on Tuesday afternoon to discuss Georgescu’s appeal, and a final ruling should be issued the same day. The BEC rejected his candidacy on Sunday after a 10-4 vote, saying it did not ‘meet the conditions of legality,’ as Georgescu ‘violated the very obligation to defend democracy.’ Last year, the court annulled November’s first round of the vote — in which Georgescu came first — after intelligence revealed Russia had been involved in 800 TikTok accounts backing him. In his appeal, Georgescu said that the ‘BEC exceeded its legal powers.’ He also argued that the constitutional court’s decision on the November election should have no bearing on his candidacy for the upcoming vote in May.” (03/10/25)