Romania’s Electoral Coup Is a Blow to Europe

This past weekend, Romania’s electoral commission disqualified the frontrunner nationalist candidate, Calin Georgescu, from participating in May’s upcoming presidential contest, the latest development in an electoral saga started with the controversial cancellation of the presidential elections last December. Vice President J.D. Vance and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard already criticized the cancelling of the first round of elections as an example of democratic backsliding in the EU, but the latest developments present a geopolitical threat to American interests in an already volatile region, as well as a dire warning for the future of nationalist and anti-interventionist European parties.