Authorities have cleared a dozen candidates for the May election — and rejected a dozen others. Meet the runners and riders here.

Eleven candidates will be on the ballots on May 4, in the first round of the presidential elections, after the Constitutional ...

By Iulian Ernst in Bucharest A far-right candidate, either George Simion or Anamaria Gavrila, will win the first round of Romania’s May presidential election, but either would lose in the second round ...

The isolationist far-right candidate, be it George Simion or Anamaria Gavrila, would win the first round of the presidential ...

Romania’s electoral commission barred Calin Georgescu, an independent right wing politician, to run for May’s re-run ...

Update: In a statement explaining its decision, the Central Electoral Bureau emphasized that presidential candidates must "respect the Constitution and defend democracy," criteria Călin Georgescu ...

The BEC registered his candidacy on Sunday. Crin Antonescu, the joint presidential candidate backed by Romania’s governing coalition — comprised of the Social Democratic Party, the National ...

Thus, if the 2025 presidential elections were to take place next Sunday, most of those polled would vote for Călin Georgescu (41.1%), followed by Crin Antonescu (18.5%) and Bucharest mayor ...

Romania said on March 5 that it had expelled Russian military attache Victor Makovskiy and his deputy, Evgeny Ignatiev, for breaching diplomatic rules of conduct. "It is an exceptional measure... It ...

A key element of the investigation is a speech given by Georgescu at Bucharest’s University Square, where he emulated Marshal Ion Antonescu, the leader of Romania from 1940-1944 and a convicted ...

including those of Marshal Ion Antonescu (Romania’s World War II leader and Nazi ally). The moment of Georgescu’s detention was filmed and later shared online by American influencer Mario Nawfal, a ...

Ion channels are integral membrane protein assemblies that modulate the flow of ions into and out of a cell or organelle, leading to generation of electrical signals. Opening (gating) of ion ...