Romania’s electoral commission has blocked another populist right-winger from running in this year’s presidential election.

The Central Election Bureau, or BEC, rejected Diana Sosoaca’s bid, which was filed on Thursday in the capital, Bucharest. She ...

Bucharest, March 12 (IANS) Romania’s Constitutional Court (CCR) upheld the Central Electoral Bureau’s (BEC) decision to invalidate Calin Georgescu’s candidacy for the upcoming presidential elections ...

against a decision by the country’s Central Electoral Bureau to bar him from competing in the May rerun of the presidential elections. The court decision is final. A group of Georgescu’s ...

A large crowd who were gathered outside the court in Bucharest shouted "traitors" and "we are going nowhere". The Central Electoral Bureau had earlier rejected Georgescu's candidacy for a rerun of the ...

The country’s Central Electoral Bureau rejected his candidacy Sunday, saying Georgescu had violated Romania’s election rules while coming out of nowhere to win the first round of the presidential vote ...

It said the decision was unanimous. The Central Electoral Bureau had earlier rejected Georgescu's candidacy for a rerun of the presidential election in May. Georgescu had won the first round of ...

However, two days later, on Sunday evening, the Central Electoral Bureau rejected his file, which triggered violent protests in downtown Bucharest. In a statement explaining its decision ...

Romania’s Central Electoral Bureau on Sunday (March 9) barred far-right, Russia-aligned candidate Călin Georgescu from competing in the country’s presidential election rerun in May, citing election ...