Elections
Romania’s Far Right Seeks to Avenge Their Hero in Vote Rerun
This weekend’s presidential election looks set to expose divisions again, six months after the authorities cancelled the last one.
Supporters of Calin Georgescu gather in Bucharest on Jan. 10.
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Constantin Mihai says his guiding political light is someone who was barred from running in Romania’s presidential election this weekend, and yet whose influence hasn’t gone away.
The medical student backed Calin Georgescu, whose shock victory in a vote in November triggered the country’s gravest political crisis since the fall of communism in 1989. The annulment of that election and Georgescu’s subsequent disqualification from Sunday’s rerun has only served to shore up Mihai’s rejection of the establishment, he said.