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Conservative allies of United States President Donald Trump are furious following Romanian police’s detention Wednesday of far-right presidential front-runner Călin Georgescu.
“They just arrested the person who won the most votes in the Romanian presidential election. This is messed up,” tech billionaire and White House adviser Elon Musk wrote on X.
While he’s not yet been formally arrested, police have taken in Georgescu for questioning regarding last November’s controversial first round of the presidential election in which he emerged victorious before being was annulled by the country’s Constitutional Court.
Georgescu and the canceled Romanian vote have become something of a cause célèbre for U.S. conservatives as they look to boost right-wing politicians around Europe.
Another prominent MAGA influencer and conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec referred to U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference — where he hit out against Romania’s highest court, saying its winter ruling undermined European democracy — in an excoriating X post Thursday.
“JD: The EU has abandoned traditional values. You just overturned the elections in Romania EU Leaders: Lies! Disgrace! Fascist! Also EU: arrests Romanian presidential candidate and his supporters as soon as JD leaves,” Posobiec posted, which Musk shared.
The Romanian court wiped out the results of last November’s first-round election over suspicions that a Russian influence operation boosted the candidacy of Georgescu, who is pro-Kremlin and has advocated for the end of European support to Ukraine.
Musk also reposted a message from the leader of Romania’s far-right AUR party, George Simion, who called for a protest in front of the prosecutor’s office. There, a crowd of about 200 people chanted Georgescu’s name, waving Romanian flags and booing.
“[Georgescu] was coming to [the] AUR headquarters to make the file for his candidacy [for] the president’s office. We raised 300,000 signatures for him,” Simion said on X.
According to Romanian media, prosecutors are seeking to arrest Georgescu and have begun searching the premises of his close associates, including that of his bodyguard and of mercenary leader Horațiu Potra.
Prosecutors suspect 27 people of acting against Romania’s constitutional order. Although they didn’t name Georgescu or his aides in a statement, the far-right politician claimed the searches were aimed at blocking his new presidential candidacy ahead of a redo election in May.
