The Romanian Central Election Bureau rejected the candidacy of the far-right, pro-Russian Călin Georgescu in the presidential election on Saturday, his spokesperson reported on Sunday. Georgescu's supporters tried to break through the police line and storm the commission building.

Romanian conservative presidential candidate Călin Georgescu has been barred from participating in May’s rerun of the presidential election.

Romania on Sunday barred far-right frontrunner Călin Georgescu from running in May’s presidential election. According to Bloomberg, the Bucharest-based electoral bureau invalidated Georgescu’s candidacy after receiving more than 1,