ROMANIA’S TOP COURT ANNULS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULTS, CITING RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE
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BUCHAREST, Dec 6 (Reuters) – Romania’s top court annulled the result of the first round of the country’s presidential election after accusations of Russian meddling and said on Friday the entire process, which was due to conclude this weekend, would have to be re-run.
The second round had been scheduled for Sunday and voting has already begun in polling stations abroad. It would have pitted Calin Georgescu, a far-right, pro-Russian candidate, against pro-European Union centrist leader Elena Lasconi.
Having polled in single digits before the first presidential election round on Nov. 24, Georgescu – who wants to end Romanian support for Ukraine against Russia’s invasion – surged to a first-place finish that raised questions over how such a surprise had been possible.
A Georgescu win would have upended the EU and NATO member state’s pro-Western politics, pushing it closer to a belt of states in central and eastern Europe with powerful populist, Russia-friendly politicians, including Hungary, Slovakia and Austria.
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However, Friday’s ruling plunged the country into institutional chaos as current President Klaus Iohannis’s term ends on Dec. 21 and it was unclear who would be head of state after this date.
Analysts said the ruling may erode institutions, trigger street protests and ultimately still endanger the nation’s pro-Western course.
FULL RE-RUN
Documents declassified by Romania’s top security council on Wednesday said the country was a target of “aggressive hybrid Russian attacks” during the election period.
“The electoral process to elect Romania’s president will be fully re-run, and the government will set a new date and … calendar for the necessary steps,” the court said in a statement.
It added the ruling was made “seeking to ensure the fairness and legality of the electoral process”. A detailed explanation of its ruling will be released at a later date. The court had validated the first presidential round on Monday.
Lasconi condemned the ruling.
“The constitutional court’s decision is illegal, amoral and crushes the very essence of democracy, voting,” she said.
However, Social Democrat Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu supported the move, calling it “the only correct solution”.
The Dec. 8 run-off vote would have been the third consecutive ballot after the first presidential round and a Dec. 1 parliamentary election in which far-right parties gained a third of seats, though the ruling Social Democrats emerged as the largest grouping and hope to cobble together a pro-EU coalition government.
The parliamentary vote was unaffected by Friday’s court ruling. George Simion, the leader of the opposition hard-right Alliance for Uniting Romanians (AUR) called the court ruling a “coup d’etat”, adding “nine politically appointed judges, scared that a candidate outside the system had all chances to become Romania’s president, decided to annul Romanians’ will”.
DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS
In one of the declassified documents, Romania’s intelligence agency said Georgescu was massively promoted on social media platform TikTok through coordinated accounts, recommendation algorithms and paid promotion. Georgescu has declared zero funds spent in the campaign.
The intelligence service also said access data for official Romanian election websites was published on Russian cyber crime platforms. The access data was probably procured by targeting legitimate users or by exploiting the legitimate training server, the agency said.
It added that it had identified more than 85,000 cyber attacks that aimed to exploit system vulnerabilities.
Russia has denied any interference in Romania’s election campaigns. TikTok denies giving Georgescu special treatment, saying his account was labelled as a political account and treated like any other.
“It is extremely likely that the court will not allow Calin Georgescu to run again,” said Sergiu Miscoiu, a political science professor at Babes-Bolyai University.
Earlier this year, the court banned ultra-nationalist party leader and European Parliament member Diana Sosoaca from running for president in a move that analysts said overstepped court powers.
“There will be street protests, people will become radicalised and depending on which candidate from the radical right remains in the race, people will rally around him,” said Miscoiu.
Romania’s hard-currency bonds rose following the ruling. Dollar-denominated issued enjoyed the biggest gains, with the 2048 bond rising 0.7 cents to be bid at 81.15 cents in the dollar, its strongest level since mid-November, Tradeweb data showed.
SOURCE, Reuters
4 Comments
Yes Medeea. You can send me an email sharing your perspective about Romanian Election.
Thank You very much. May God bless you and your family.
Helo beutiful and smart Medeea Greere.
I will tell you the Truth about the Elections in Romania, and I want President Donald Trump to be informed about this.
Mr. President Donald Trump,
I would like you to know exactly what happened in Romania during the 2024 Presidential Elections.
The first round of the presidential elections was won by Romanian patriotic sovereigntists who freely voted for Mr. Călin Georgescu to become the President of Romania.
The following week, the Parliamentary and Governmental elections took place, in which the Globalist Government currently in power, led by the Nazi President Klaus Werner Iohannis, rigged the elections.
In the next week, when the second and final round of the presidential elections was supposed to take place to elect Romania’s President by the Romanian patriots, Mr. Iohannis pressured the Central Committee of Romania (C.C.R.) to cancel the presidential elections, using the pretext that Mr. Călin Georgescu had been aided by the Russians through social media platforms TikTok and Telegram to win the elections.
This is entirely false. It is a lie and an attack on the democracy and freedoms of Romanians and Romania.
Here’s what really happened leading to the annulment of the elections :
Two days before the elections started in Romania, Romanians abroad, in all countries of the world, began voting, and the majority, over 65%, voted for Călin Georgescu. When a partial result of the overseas elections was transmitted to Romania, it became evident that independent candidate Călin Georgescu would win.
Seeing that they were about to lose power, the current Government, under the pressure of Iohannis, decided through the C.C.R. to annul the presidential elections, ensuring that the former President Iohannis would remain in office as President of Romania. This was done illegally, as his mandate officially ends on December 21, 2024.
In conclusion, it was a Coup d’État against the democracy of Romania and the Free, Sovereign, and Patriotic Romanians.
I urge you to take action against these traitors of the state and arrest them all, starting with the Globalist Nazi Iohannis.
Dear Daniel,
Thank you for your message and for presenting everything so clearly and concisely. You might be surprised to hear this, but in the first round of elections, I actually voted for C. Georgescu.
If I may, I’d like to send you a detailed email sharing my perspective on the coup in Romania.
With respect,
Medeea.
Russia, Russia, Russia!!! The U.S. CONgress is not the only one using this flimsy excuse for nullifying elections, it seems.