Trying to keep up with what passes for ‘democracy’ in Europe can be pretty confusing at times these days.
When last we saw Romania, there were people in the streets angry that their favorite candidate – a ‘right-wing’ or ‘hard-right’ (your choice) – fellow named Calin Georgescu was leading in polls with about 40%. Georgescu had won the first round of elections this past fall, when it was suddenly declared ‘no good,’ nullified and new elections scheduled.
Obviously, the wrong guy had won.
A little over a week ago, Georgescu was on his way to register for the new elections in mid-May when he was snatched up by police, taken to the station for interrogation, and, shortly thereafter, disqualified from running at all by the Romanian election commission.
As expected, Calin Georgescu is banned from the Romanian presidential elections, he was judged as being the wrong…
