He beat several well-established candidates with 24 percent of the vote. Georgescu was due to face reformist Elena Lasconi, the leader of the center-right Save Romania Union party, in a December 8 ...

The historic decision means a second-round runoff that was scheduled for Sunday, when Georgescu would have gone head to head with his centrist rival Elena Lasconi, will no longer take place.

Calin Georgescu, a little-known, far-right populist, clinched the most votes and advanced to the second round to face off against reformist Elena Lasconi of the progressive Save Romania Union party.

Calin Georgescu, who ran independently, will face off against reformist Elena Lasconi in a runoff in two weeks. Georgescu, 62, was ahead after nearly all ballots were counted with around 22.95% of ...

BUCHAREST -- Several hundred supporters of Romanian far-right politician Calin Georgescu gathered peacefully ... pro-European centrist candidate Elena Lasconi, 52, in a runoff, which had been ...

BUCHAREST -- Romania's Central Electoral Board (CEB) has rejected the candidacy of far-right politician Calin Georgescu in a rerun ... centrist candidate Elena Lasconi in a runoff, which had ...

was abruptly canceled by Romania’s Constitutional Court days before a scheduled December 8 run-off between Georgescu and pro-EU reformer Elena Lasconi. Declassified intelligence pointed to a ...

But Lasconi, a 52-year-old who spent a quarter century as a TV journalist, says she doesn’t entirely believe the polls. After all, no survey predicted that Călin Georgescu would win the first round of ...