Frontrunner in the annulled presidential elections of Romania prohibited from the race

Romania’s central electoral authority has banned Calin Georgescu, a populist candidate and a favorite, will be executed in May The presidential elections return to execute.

“Europe is now a dictatorship, Romania is under tyranny!” Georgescu said in an X post, after the decision. “I have a message! If democracy in Romania falls, everyone will fall!”

The Trump administration has been interested in Romania’s presidential elections since it was canceled in May due to Russian collusion accusations in favor of Georgescu.

The CEO and leader of Spacex, Elon Musk, intervened and shared his reaction to the decision.

Romanian extreme right -wing presidential plantial after the reprimand of the European elections of JD Vance

“This is crazy,” Musk wrote in X.

Kari Lake, main advisor to the Trump administration for the Global Media Agency of the United States, also reacted and compared What is happening in Romania To which “they tried with Trump here in the United States.”

“Do you love your country and want to put it first?” Lake published in X. “Then, the globalists want them to have taken you out of the ballot and silenced. They tried with Trump here in the United States. They did it to Bolsanaro in Brazil. Now, they are doing it to Georgescu in Romania. People should dictate the future of their country. Not the international order and its captured cut.”

Georgescu, who won the first round of the canceled presidential elections of Romania last year, was arrested by the country’s main prosecutors in February.

Romania Annuls First presidential vote round won by extreme right candidate

The Constitutional Court of Romania made the unprecedented movement to annul the elections two days before the runoff on December 8 after the victory of Georgescu in the first round. He had surveyed in a single digit and declared zero campaign expense, according to Associated Press. Accusations of Russian interference and electoral rapes quickly emerged. After the cancellation of the elections, prosecutors initiated an investigation into the alleged financing fraud of the campaign, as well as an alleged anti -Semitism and hate speech.

The Trump administration has criticized Romania for canceling last year’s presidential elections, with Vice President JD Vance alleging that the court ruling was based on “flimless suspicions” and “enormous pressure” of Romania’s neighbors.

Vance said in December: “Romania directly canceled the results of a presidential election based on the clarifies suspicions of an intelligence agency and enormous pressure from its continental neighbors.”

He also warned European leaders who cannot win a “democratic mandate” by “censoring their opponents or putting them in jail”, or “ignoring their basic electorate in questions such as who can be part of our shared society.”

“For many of us on the other side of the Atlantic, it is increasingly similar to the old and entrenched interests that hide behind the ugly words of the Soviet era such as erroneous information and misinformation, those who simply do not like the idea that someone with an alternative point of view could express a different opinion or, God does not come, vote differently, or even worse, win a choice,” Vance said.

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Georgescu, a firm critic of NATO and Western support for Ukraine, has caused controversy in the past for describing Romanian fascist and nationalist leaders of the 1930s and 1940s as national heroes, according to AP.

He has also praised Russian President Vladimir Putin In the past as “a man who loves his country”, and has called Ukraine “an invented state.”

Danielle Wallace, Reuters and The Associated Press of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.

Stepheny Price is a writer of Fox News Digital and Fox Business. She covers issues that include missing persons, homicides, national cases of crimes, illegal immigration and more. The advice and ideas of history can be sent to stepny.price@fox.com