He shook Romania's political landscape in November when he secured the first round in the presidential election, going from an obscure candidate to beating the incumbent prime minister. Calin Georgescu,

Calin Georgescu, the far-right winner of the first round of the annulled presidential elections in Romania, was arrested on Wednesday. "It seems that Bucharest is paving the way to block Georgescu's participation in the elections,

Romanian prosecutors opened a criminal probe on Wednesday into far-right populist Calin Georgescu, who won the first round of the country’s cancelled presidential elections last December. Georgescu is accused of “incitement to actions against the constitutional order,