Calin Georgescu has exposed the rotten European Union

To the great surprise of very few the European Court of Human Rights this week rejected an appeal by Calin Georgescu to overturn last month’s annulment of Romania’s presidential election. The Eurosceptic Georgescu had won the first round of November’s election, but days before the second round Romania’s Constitutional Court cancelled the result because of alleged Russian interference on social media. In its decision, the ECHR said that Georgescu’s appeal fell outside its jurisdiction.

That was the bad news for Georgescu. The good news was the publication of a poll this week that puts him firmly in front to win the election when it is re-run in May. He is forecast to take 38 per cent of the vote in the first round and then defeat his nearest rival, Crin Antonescu, in the second round to become president.

Antonescu has been selected as the candidate of the ruling coalition, that coalition being comprised of three pro-EU parties: the Social Democrats, the Liberals and the UDMR, which represents the Hungarian minority in Romania.