In Romania, prosecutors have launched criminal investigations against the far-right populist Calin Georgescu. Last year, the country's top court canceled elections just as he was about to sweep up the majority vote.

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,