Călin Georgescu appeals against election ban at Romania’s top court

We hope for the leaders of the country to change the trajectory in the right direction, for us to have the president the people want,

he told AFP

This is a black page in our fragile democracy,

he said

Call your colleagues and friends and go to the fight, boys!”

Potra said

I am very disappointed, not because Georgescu is not able to participate but because our biggest fear has been revealed as a disappointing truth: there is no democracy. It doesn't make sense to vote,

Florin said after Georgescu was blocked from the ballot

Romania will be part of Russia."

During Romania’s December elections, Russian ultra-nationalist and pro-Putin ideologue Alexander Dugin wrote on X

The candidate also benefited from preferential treatment on social media platforms, which had the effect of distorting the manifestation of voters' will,

the document said

Even if he was being funded or supported by Russia, I would support Georgescu, though I was never a Russia lover,

43-year-old Florin from Romania’s city of Cluj-Napoca told The Moscow Times

Vladimir Putinrussian President

One candidate did not please the authorities, and they decided to repeat the vote count,

Putin said

We, Romanians, want a change very badly because we realized that all the parties that were governing us since 1989 were playing an ugly theatrical show that made our lives worse,

he added