Romanian far-right populist Calin Georgescu has lost his appeal against a ruling barring him from participating in the country’s presidential election in May. The Constitutional Court issued the final ruling on Tuesday after deliberating for two hours,

Romania’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday barred far-right front-runner candidate Călin Georgescu from competing in a May rerun of the country’s presidential election, despite protests and accusations of tyranny from Georgescu and his supporters.