Romanian far-right populist Calin Georgescu has lost his appeal against a ruling barring him from participating in the country's presidential election in

Hundreds of supporters of Calin Georgescu protested for a third consecutive day after Romania's Constitutional Court upheld a decision barring him from running for president. The court decision blocks the nationalist politician from running in a new election scheduled for May.

The decision by the country’s constitutional court is final.

The ruling by Romania's electoral bureau to exclude the far-right politician Calin Georgescu from the presidential poll in May sparked clashes between his supporters and police in the capital Bucharest.…