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, 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,

A far-right populist who won the first round in Romania’s cancelled presidential race last year has been stopped in traffic by police and taken in for questioning by prosecutors, his communication team said.