[kioku]

The frontrunner was an independent candidate who claimed to have spent nothing on his campaign, asserting that it was entirely run by “volunteers.”

Romanian secret services, under the directive of the current president, released reports concluding that both state and non-state actors had been involved in manipulating public opinion.

The candidate holds extreme right-wing views aligned with Romanian neo-Nazi groups. He has repeatedly referred to Romanian Nazi leaders as heroes and has expressed admiration for Putin, calling him a hero as well. His speeches often included mystical elements and rejected modern medical science, denying the existence of viruses and questioning the effectiveness of chemotherapy for cancer. While he has made other controversial statements, I will leave it at that.

[randunel]

His "spent nothing" claim is plausible, people did these things themselves https://the5star.github.io/cgarad/messages.html

[4ad]

The candidate seems to be more of a communist than anything[1], he wants 51% state control of all large corporations operating in Romania. Labelling him as right-wing is asinine. Actual communist parties are supporting him.

Perhaps if people wouldn't demonise any anti-globalist public figure as "far right" we wouldn't have ended with this clown of a candidate. People haven't voted for him as a person, he was totally unknown as of a couple of weeks ago, they've voted against the status quo, and more importantly they voted against the establishment that regulates what constitutes acceptable opinion.

[1] https://calingeorgescu.ro/program

[kioku]

In the page that you linked, it states that he wants to implement a measure that enforces minimum 51% participation by the state in all natural resource exploitation activities on Romanian territory.

While this can be viewed as a left-wing policy, it can also be a form of economic nationalism.

As far as I understand, he gets classified as far right [1], because of his ultranationalist and ultraconservative views.

The parties that declared support for him [2][3][4], after the first election round, have similar views.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-right_politics

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AUR_Alliance

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_of_Young_People

[4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.O.S._Romania