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We don't have all the answers yet and there's a bunch of speculation that the intelligence services were a bit incompetent or even supported him in hopes of taking votes away from other candidates, but things may have gotten a bit out of control and they underestimated his popularity.

Georgescu's stance wasn't super well known to most of his supporters and it's not what was being pushed, he's mostly flag-waiving, talking about sovereignty and God, not really saying much of substance, but he's palatable if you don't know his views and he was something fresh compared to the other candidates that were more known, thus giving him a boost among anti-establishment types.

He's not completely new to the scene as he was touted as potential PM by a minority political party at some point, but they also distanced themselves from him to clean up their own anti-EU image.