For a second time, Romania’s right-wing candidate for president has been tossed off the ballot, igniting protests around the country and increasing a crisis in a nation currently being run by an interim president.

Romania's election body has barred candidate Calin Georgescu, who won the first round of the scrapped presidential election in November, from a re-run.

Cornelia Borta sees no alternative to far-right politician Calin Georgescu as Romania's next president, despite moves to bar him from standing in the rerun of a presidential election in May. Borta left her young child with relatives in the eastern county of Neamt and travelled to Bucharest to protest outside Romania's top court on Tuesday as it decided whether to uphold the central election authority's decision on Sunday to bar him.