Romania – alarm at election interference

Romania’s constitutional court has annulled the result of the first round of voting in the presidential election after it was won by Calin Georgescu, an almost unknown far-right Nato-sceptic who has previously praised Vladimir Putin. The decision came after suggestions that  he benefitted from a mass influence operation, assumed to be Russian, to interfere with the result of the vote. Born 26 March 1962 in Bucharest, he is a far-right politician and prominent conspiracy theorist,