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.
“Calin Georgescu was about to submit his new candidacy for the Presidency,” his team said in a post on Facebook. “He was taken in for questioning at the General Prosecutor’s Office.”
It is not yet clear why prosecutors have taken the 62-year-old Mr Georgescu in for questioning, or whether he will be charged with anything. No details were immediately available.
The Constitutional Court made the unprecedented move to annul the presidential election just two days before a December 8 run-off contest.
Mr Georgescu – who was polling in single digits and declared zero campaign spending – surprised many when he won the first round on November 24, after which allegations of electoral violations and Russian interference emerged.