Romanian Far-Right Frontrunner Barred From May Presidential Vote

There are still some good news!

This is how you practice defensive democracy. It is a complete fallacy that liberal democracies need to expose themselves to capture by radical populist movements out of some deranged devotion to absolute principle. Democracy is not a suicide pact, it requires guardrails.

Next step: barring the GOP

Better yet, we need an international collective security treaty among democracies against radical right wing capture.

Seems like he did not sign one of the required declarations, so this might have been intentional to rile up his supporters

Worth noting that he can:

* Appeal to the constitutional court
* Some say he could apply again as long as he is able to collect new signatures in time. Other disagree