Russia and Its Allies Defend Călin Georgescu

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that the presidential elections in Romania without the candidacy of Călin Georgescu “will have no legitimacy.”

“Of course, to be honest, any election organized without him (Georgescu) will have no legitimacy,” the Russian president’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters.

He stressed that the rejection of Georgescu’s candidacy in the presidential elections is a “violation of all the norms of democracy in central Europe.”

“In this case, Romania has chosen the path of contempt for democracy as such,” Peskov commented on the decision of the Romanian Central Electoral Bureau to reject Georgescu’s candidacy in the presidential elections on May 4, in which he was considered the favorite, EFE notes.

The Kremlin spokesman described as “nonsense” the accusations that Russia has ties to Georgescu. “These are completely unfounded accusations,” he insisted.

Last November, Georgescu surprisingly won the first round of the presidential election, which was annulled on suspicion that he had illegally financed his campaign and that Russia had interfered in the electoral process, the Spanish press agency reported.

The Constitutional Court meets on Tuesday and on the agenda will be Călin Georgescu’s appeal, as well as two other complaints filed by two other people, against the BEC decision rejecting his candidacy in the presidential elections in May.