The Romania Central Electoral Office has rejected this Sunday the candidacy of the Ultranationalist Porruso Calin Georgescu for the presidential elections of May 4 and in which he left as a favorite.
After this decision, a 24 -hour period opens to present resources before the Constitutional Court, which has 48 additional hours to issue a ruling. This means that the final decision could be known on Wednesday night.
Georgescu won the first round of the Romanian presidentials of last November 24, subsequently annulled by the Constitutional for indications of illegal financing and a Russian interference against all prognosis.
Georgescu supporters met in front of the central electoral office and reacted violently, breaking the fences installed by the police to cordon off the building.
“A direct blow to the heart of world democracy!” Georgescu said in the social network X when he knows the decision and added: “Europe is now a dictatorship, Romania is under tyranny!”
The leader of the Alliance for the Union of the Romanians (Aur), George Simion, whose ultra -nationalist and Eurosceptic party is currently the main opposition force in the country, has described the rejection of Georgescu’s candidacy as an antidemocratic act.
“It is a continuation of the coup d’etat of December 6,” he said on Facebook in reference to the date on which the Constitutional annulled the presidential elections.
Georgescu, relatively little known in Romania until a few months ago, won in the first round thanks to a campaign on social networks, especially Tiktok, in which he said he had not invested anything.
His message against traditional parties attracted mostly young voters and rural environments, disenchanted with corruption and low standard of living in the country of 19 million border inhabitants with Ukraine.
The leader of the ultra -nationalist party Pot, Anamaria Gavrilă, has also denounced the decision, has assured that Romania is “a dictatorship” and has questioned the vote of the 14 members of the central electoral office.
According to sources cited by the Romanian newspaper G4Mediathe candidacy has been rejected both for formal and background reasons. One of the determining factors was the declaration of goods presented by Georgescu, which presented incongruities compared to the one he had delivered in the November elections.
The ultra -nationalist candidate, who has defended an approach to Russia and has questioned that Ukraine was a state, defends a reactionary ideology and in the past praised Romanian fascist leaders responsible for the Holocaust in the country during World War II.
In the last surveys, Georgescu was the favorite for elections by monopolizing more than 35% of the votes, which guaranteed him to reach the second round. At the end of February, the Romanian Prosecutor’s Office accused him of six crimes, including committing actions against the constitutional order and creating a fascist and anti -Semitic organization.
The Prosecutor’s Office announced the charges after questioning him for more than four hours and in addition to the aforementioned crimes he was suspected of continuous falsehood about his assets and the financing of his campaign.
