Romania’s far-right presidential candidate Calin Georgescu was taken for questioning by police as part of an investigation into his campaign.

The opposition far-right party AUR, which backs Georgescu in the presidential race announced that it will stage a protest outside the prosecutors’ office. Romania’s prosecutors are also investigating some of Georgescu’s allies and bodyguards.

Georgescu declined to comment when asked by the media about the questioning or any accusations against him.

Mirror: https://archive.is/2025.02.26-113129/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-26/romania-far-right-candidate-georgescu-brought-in-for-questioning

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    Finally… A little bit to late, but it was expected, knowing how the Romanian authorities work. We must not forget that was risky arresting him right after the elections, when the tension was high.

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      I just hope he’s found guilty of something or it will look very very very bad for western democracies.

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        Oho…, my friend. He has a lot of skeletons in his closet… Just the fact that he’s supported by Wagner related mercenaries, the fact that he declared 0$ spend on his campaign etc. should be more than enough not to let him run for presidency, maybe imprison him. Compared with USA, Romania will not let an ruzzian asset to occupy such a sensitive position.

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          I really hope you can convict him of everything you accuse him of, otherwise trust in the democratic institutions might erode even further and it won’t be Georgescu’s fault. So far it looks like elites up top just cancelled elections. Fuck Russian assets but also fuck those centrist technocrats who made people vote for him.

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            50% of the population is retarded and takes its “information” from TicTok and Facebook. They act emotional, not logical. Same as USA. I had conflicts with my family for voting CG.