Romania's Post-Communist Struggles

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What next for Romania after its recent electoral chaos?

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Romania is currently oscillating between tragic and the grotesque, writes Julian Zelizer .

The country's traditional political elite does not seem willing to learn anything from the situation, he says.

The result of the annulled first round of the presidential election was a massive shock: Calin Georgescu, an extreme right-wing independent with fundamentalist Christian Orthodox views, came out of nowhere to win the poll.

Horatiu Potra led a group of mercenaries in the Democratic Republic of Congo .

He was arrested on December 8 , the day the presidential runoff was due to take place.

Potra and other men were arrested as they made their way by car to Bucharest with weapons, military equipment and large sums of money.

It is not clear why the authorities did not move sooner against Potra.

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