The messages posted by Elon Musk on various social networks in support of the Romanian isolationist politician Calin Georgescu "is a form of interference with the country's domestic politics," Romanian foreign minister Emil Hurezeanu said,

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,

Prosecutors said Calin Georgescu, whose win in the first round of a presidential election was annulled, is the subject of “criminal proceedings” linked to incitement.

The decision to annul the Romanian presidential vote, which Calin Georgescu won, plunged the eastern European country into crisis, with tens of thousands protesting.

Romanian prosecutors opened a criminal case on Wednesday against ultranationalist politician Călin Georgescu, who won the first round of the country's annulled 2024 presidential election. Georgescu