The Romanian constitutional court on Tuesday upheld a ban preventing the far-right candidate Călin Georgescu from participating in the country’s presidential election. The ruling, which is final, backed a decision by Romania’s electoral authority on Sunday to throw out Georgescu’s bid to run in May’s vote after he allegedly breached election rules.

The Romanian Central Election Bureau rejected the candidacy of the far-right, pro-Russian Călin Georgescu in the presidential election on Saturday, his spokesperson reported on Sunday. Georgescu's supporters tried to break through the police line and storm the commission building.

Romanian authorities have barred far-right pro-Russian candidate Calin Georgescu from taking part in May's rerun of a cancel led presidential election, prompting him on Monday to say he would challenge the decision at the Constitutional Court.