BUCHAREST: Calin Georgescu, a far-right politician who won the first round of last year’s presidential elections but had the results revoked in a shocking decision that rocked the nation, was being questioned by Romanian prosecutors on Wednesday. Following accusations of Russian meddling and “massive” social media support of Georgescu, who rose to prominence almost overnight, the nation’s constitutional court cancelled the elections in December.
Georgescu has referred to the annulment as a “formalised coup d’etat” and denied any misconduct. Georgescu was shown on television walking into the general prosecutor’s office with officers on either side of him. He will be questioned, a judicial source said AFP, but he would not elaborate. Authorities searched hundreds of locations nationwide earlier Wednesday, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
The raids, according to prosecutors, were a part of an investigation into alleged crimes such as “false statements regarding the sources of financing of the electoral campaign” and “establishing an organisation with a fascist, racist, or xenophobic character.” Georgescu was not specifically named in the statement. Georgescu wrote on Facebook, “I am fighting this security system that wants us in slavery, on behalf of my voters, but also of those who want a democratic and free Romania, even though they have other political options.”
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