He shook Romania’s political landscape in November when he secured the first round in the presidential election, going from an obscure candidate to beating the incumbent prime minister.Calin Georgescu,

Romanian prosecutors have charged Calin Georgescu, the frontrunner in May’s presidential election, in an investigation into his electoral campaign.

Romania on Wednesday indicted far-right politician Calin Georgescu for "false statements" over his financing for last year's presidential election, where he won the most votes but which a court annulled.