{"id":304436,"date":"2025-03-02T07:23:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T07:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=304436"},"modified":"2025-03-04T08:05:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T08:05:33","slug":"romanian-far-right-supporters-hold-protest-rally-ahead-of-election-re-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=304436","title":{"rendered":"Romanian far-right supporters hold protest rally ahead of election re-run"},"content":{"rendered":"

France24.com\u2014March 1, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in Romania<\/a>\u2019s capital on Saturday in the latest anti-government demonstration by far-right groups after a top court canceled a presidential election in the European Union<\/a> country last year.<\/p>\n

Protesters converged in front of the government building in Bucharest, waving Romania\u2019s tricolor flags and chanting slogans such as \u201cDown with the Government!\u201d and \u201cThieves\u201d. Many expressed support for Calin Georgescu, who emerged as the frontrunner in December’s canceled election, and demanded they be resumed from the second round.<\/p>\n

George Simion, the leader of the far-right Alliance for the Unity of Romanians, which organised the protest, told supporters on Saturday: \u201cWe are united, we are strong. We are here because our vote was stolen. Because democracy was trampled on.”<\/p>\n

Simion told reporters that the protest aimed to \u201crestore democracy and free elections\u201d and demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do not trust that the upcoming elections will be free and fair,” he said.<\/p>\n

A no-confidence vote on Friday, which was backed by AUR and two other far-right opposition parties, failed to unseat Ciolacu’s pro-Western coalition government, which was formed after a December 1 parliamentary election.<\/p>\n

Romania has seen recurring protests after the Constitutional Court made the unprecedented move to annul the election two days ahead of the December 8 runoff following Georgescu\u2019s surprise win in the November 24 first round of the 2024 presidential election.<\/p>\n

The far-right populist had polled in single digits and declared zero campaign spending. Allegations of electoral violations and Russian interference quickly emerged. Moscow has denied it meddled in Romania\u2019s election.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Romanian prosecutors launched a criminal investigation against Georgescu, accusing him of supporting fascist groups, \u201cincitement to actions against the constitutional order,\u201d and false declarations regarding electoral campaign financing and asset disclosures. Prosecutors have placed him under judicial control, according to his lawyers.<\/p>\n

Georgescu, who has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, attended Saturday’s protest where he told supporters that \u201cthe system has maliciously tried to divide us\u201d and that \u201cold and new cronies tried to block my candidacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first round of the rerun of the election is scheduled for May 4. If no candidate gets more than 50% of ballots, a runoff will follow on May 18.<\/p>\n

It isn’t yet clear whether Georgescu will be able to participate in the new election.<\/p>\n

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Anyone who doesn\u2019t support the established political class is now smeared as \u201cfar-right\u201d \u2013 whether they are or not. In Calin Georgescu’s case, he was frontrunner in Romania\u2019s December election before it was cancelled \u2013 after he voiced support for Putin <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":304438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=304436"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304442,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304436\/revisions\/304442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/304438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}