Călin Georgescu has sparked Romania’s deepest political crisis in decades, uniting Romanian nationalists, senior Trump administration officials and the Kremlin.

Romania’s largest far-right party is scrambling to find a candidate after the independent front-runner it supported was barred from May’s presidential election.

Cornelia Borta sees no alternative to far-right politician Calin Georgescu as Romania's next president, even though on Tuesday Georgescu was barred from standing in the rerun of a presidential election in May.