Despite enjoying massive support from a large portion of the Romanian population, banned nationalist candidate Cǎlin Georgescu is turning his back on politics. Georgescu said he’s ending his “active involvement in the political process, considering that this stage of the sovereignist movement has ended from my point of view.”
For now, that is. He’s not ruling out a return to public life if “the rights of those who have chosen differently are being violated or injustices and abuses arise.”
Romania’s electoral commission blocked Georgescu from running in this month’s election rerun, a move later backed by the Constitutional Court, which cited alleged campaign finance violations and national security concerns. Georgescu has claimed the election was “cancelled illegally and unconstitutionally.” After being barred from the May rerun, he accused authorities of “inventing evidence to justify the theft” of the elections.
