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>Romania’s election commission has blocked pro-Russian candidate Calin Giorgescu from running in its rescheduled presidential elections, on the grounds that he
by tim333 2y ago
>Romania’s election commission has blocked pro-Russian candidate Calin Giorgescu from running in its rescheduled presidential elections, on the grounds that he has illegally benefited from Russian support. https://conservativehome.com/2025/03/13/from-garvanwalshe-romania-disqualified-pro-kremlin-georgescu-we-should-all-learn-from-its-defence-of-democracy/ https://conservativehome.com/2025/03/13/from-garvanwalshe-ro...
People are touchy about Russia rigging things these days. They seem to be causing a fair bit of havoc quite likely flipping things in the Brexit vote and the 2016 US election, plus the invasion stuff.
- yorwba 2y agoNote that the election commission did not explicitly give this as the reason in their decision: https://prezidentiale2025.bec.ro/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/decizie_18D.pdf https://prezidentiale2025.bec.ro/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/...