{"id":304840,"date":"2025-03-10T07:53:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T07:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=304840"},"modified":"2025-03-11T07:20:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T07:20:42","slug":"protests-erupt-as-anti-nato-romanian-presidential-candidate-booted-from-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=304840","title":{"rendered":"Protests erupt as anti-NATO Romanian presidential candidate booted from vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

RT.com \u2013 March 9, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Scuffles between police and supporters of Romanian politician Calin Georgescu have erupted outside the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) in Bucharest after the body barred the politician from running in the upcoming election. Georgescu won the first-round of the presidential vote in November but his victory was soon thereafter annulled by the Constitutional Court.<\/p>\n

Georgescu condemned Sunday’s ruling, claiming the electoral board’s decision spells grave consequences for democracy not only in Romania but all across the globe.<\/p>\n

\u201cA direct blow to the heart of democracy worldwide! I have one message left! If democracy in Romania falls, the entire democratic world will fall! This is just the beginning. It\u2019s that simple! Europe is now a dictatorship, Romania is under tyranny!\u201d<\/em> Georgescu wrote on X.<\/p>\n

The BEC ruling can be appealed to the Constitutional Court within 24 hours, while the top judiciary body will have 48 hours to produce a final decision.<\/p>\n

The electoral board did not provide any explanation for its decision, stating only the full text for the ruling will be published online later on.<\/p>\n

The announcement elicited an angry reaction from a crowd of Georgescu\u2019s supporters who had gathered outside the BEC building. Many of the protesters became unruly and attempted to breach police barriers and scuffled with law enforcement, which had a large presence in the area. Officers responded with tear gas and pepper spray, which appear to have affected multiple protesters, footage from the scene suggests.<\/p>\n

Georgescu scored a shocking win in the first round of presidential elections last November when he unexpectedly garnered 23% of the vote. However, the Constitutional Court annulled the results shortly before the second round, citing intelligence documents alleging \u201cirregularities\u201d<\/em> in the campaign and claiming without proof that the candidate was covertly supported by Russia. Georgescu is known as an outspoken critic of NATO and the EU, and a staunch opponent of supporting Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Subsequent media reports, citing the preliminary findings of an investigation into the matter, however, indicated that the alleged \u201cirregularities\u201d<\/em> cited by the court actually stemmed from the activities of a consulting firm associated with the ruling pro-Western National Liberal Party. The efforts undertaken by the firm were presumably aimed at derailing another candidate yet yielded the unexpected outcome of boosting Georgescu instead.<\/p>\n

In late February, Georgescu was briefly arrested and indicted on six criminal charges, including alleged \u201canti-constitutional acts,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u201cvoter bribery,\u201d<\/em> and \u201cpromoting fascist, racist, or xenophobic ideologies.\u201d<\/em> The politician has maintained his innocence and asked US President Donald Trump for help, claiming the campaign against him was politically motivated and organized by the Romanian \u201cdeep state.\u201d<\/em> The Romanian election turmoil was promptly noticed by Trump\u2019s close ally, billionaire Elon Musk, who said the decision to bar Georgescu was a \u201ccrazy\u201d<\/em> move.<\/p>\n

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The anti-NATO candidate scored a surprise win in the first round of Romania\u2019s presidential election in November. However, his win was quickly annulled by the Constitutional Court, which has just prohibited the pro-Putin Calin Georgescu from participating in the second round of the vote. No reasons were given <\/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-304840","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\/304840","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=304840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304841,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304840\/revisions\/304841"}],"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=304840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}