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,

BUCHAREST - Romanian prosecutors on Wednesday launched a criminal investigation into former presidential front-runner Calin Georgescu, placing him under 60-day judicial control with restrictions on foreign travel and posting "contents of legionary, fascist, anti-Semitic, racist or xenophobic nature" online.