{"id":419827,"date":"2025-02-26T16:41:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T15:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/02\/26\/romania-fermato-polizia-georgescu-indaga\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T17:52:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T16:52:32","slug":"romania-pro-russian-candidate-georgescu-detained-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/02\/26\/romania-pro-russian-candidate-georgescu-detained-by-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Romania, pro-Russian candidate Georgescu detained by police"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels –\u00a0<\/span>Romania’s ultranationalist presidential candidate, Calin Georgescu,<\/strong>\u00a0was stopped as he drove to Bucharest to present his new presidential bid.<\/span><\/p>\n

The confirmation comes from Georgescu’s campaign team, who, in a\u00a0<\/span>post<\/a>\u00a0on its\u00a0Facebook profile, wrote: “The system stopped him in traffic for questioning in the attorney general’s office.<\/span>\u00a0Where is democracy? Where are the partners who are supposed to defend democracy?”\u00a0Romania experienced a deep political\u00a0crisis<\/a>\u00a0last December (2024) after\u00a0the Constitutional Court invalidated the results of the first round<\/strong>\u00a0of presidential elections following an alleged Russian operation to influence the outcome.<\/span>\u00a0The election round\u00a0was given to Georgescu as the winner,<\/span>\u00a0against whom an\u00a0arrest warrant<\/strong> was issued today (Feb. 26), as\u00a0the Romanian news channel\u00a0Digi24 <\/em><\/a>reported<\/span>. Several searches<\/strong> were also ordered and executed, especially at the homes of his bodyguard and close associates.<\/p>\n

As for the accusations<\/strong>, these would relate to the financing of his election campaign last year: the Antena 3 CNN news channel reports<\/a>\u00a0that C\u0103lin Georgescu is\u00a0accused of “spreading false information having potential destabilising effects on national security, an act provided for and punished by Art. 404 of the Criminal Code.” Prosecutors also suspected 27 people\u00a0of\u00a0acting<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0against the Romanian constitutional order<\/strong>, public incitement, starting a fascist organization, and making false statements about sources of campaign financing. Still, their statement did not include Georgescu’s name or those of his associates.<\/p>\n

However, shortly after news of the searches spread, Georgescu published a Facebook post talking about sabotage<\/strong>: “They are trying to invent evidence to justify stealing the elections and doing everything to block my new presidential candidacy.” The candidate concluded his social invective harshly: “We live in communism; there is nothing free or legal in what is happening. I will not give up.” New elections <\/strong>are expected\u00a0on\u00a0May<\/strong><\/span>\u00a04<\/strong>, with a runoff scheduled for May 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Unconstitutional actions and false election financing “Bucharest prosecutor’s office investigates. The ultranationalist right-winger had won the first round of the annulled elections in December. His associates searched<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7883,"featured_media":411898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681],"tags":[29945,30594,29785,29435],"class_list":["post-419827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-arrest","tag-calin-georgescu-en","tag-election-presidential-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7883"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419827"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419838,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419827\/revisions\/419838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}