Romania’s top court rejects Georgescu’s appeal, bars him from running for president – POLITICO

Romania’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday barred far-right front-runner candidate Călin Georgescu from competing in a May rerun of the country’s presidential election, despite protests and accusations of tyranny from Georgescu and his supporters.

The country’s Central Electoral Bureau rejected his candidacy Sunday, saying Georgescu had violated Romania’s election rules while coming out of nowhere to win the first round of the presidential vote last November, partly on the back of a wildly successful TikTok campaign. 

Georgescu appealed the decision at the Constitutional Court, where all nine justices voted to reject it Tuesday evening, making the authorities’ decision to keep him from the presidential race final. The court’s reasoning will be published in Romania’s official journal, the court said in a statement, without providing a timeline.