Georgescu barred from Romanian vote in final court ruling
Calin Georgescu loses a bid to overturn a ruling barring him from participating in next May's vote.
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The Constitutional Court issued the final ruling on Tuesday afternoon after deliberating for two hours. It said the decision was unanimous.
The Central Electoral Bureau had earlier rejected Georgescu's candidacy for a rerun of the presidential election in May.
Georgescu had won the first round of last year's presidential vote, but it was annulled after intelligence revealed Russia had been involved in setting up almost 800 TikTok accounts backing him.
On Sunday, the election bureau said Georgescu's candidacy did not "meet the conditions of legality", as he "violated the very obligation to defend democracy".
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