The country’s electoral commission ruled on Sunday that Calin Georgescu, an outspoken critic of Ukraine and NATO, could not compete in the do-over election.

The frontrunner in last year's cancelled Romanian presidential election, far-right candidate Calin Georgescu, speaks to the media as he walks outside the prosecutor's office, in Bucharest, Romania, February 26,

Chaos broke out in Romania’s capital as supporters of the far-right populist Calin Georgescu protested the electoral body’s decision to reject his candidacy in a presidential election redo