Romanian court annuls result of presidential election first round

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We never mentioned this, to my knowledge.  South Korea got all the press.

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Romanian court annuls result of presidential election first round

 

Romania's constitutional court has annulled the result of the first round of voting in the presidential election just days before the second round was due to take place.

It means the process will be restarted from scratch, with the government due to decide a date for a new vote.

The first round was won by Calin Georgescu, an almost unknown far-right Nato-sceptic who has previously praised Vladimir Putin.

The court's decision comes after intelligence documents were declassified, suggesting Georgescu benefitted from a mass influence operation – conducted from abroad – to interfere with the result of the vote.

 

Hours after the court's decision, Georgescu told a Romanian TV channel that the country's democracy was "under attack", describing the verdict as a "formalised coup d'etat".  [...]

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4x2epppego

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https://ukandeu.ac.uk/the-romanian-2024-elections-a-test-for-democracy/

the Court’s decision to annul the elections was largely welcomed and was ‘particularly necessary in this case’. The Court underlined that ‘the electoral process for the election of the President of Romania was marred throughout its entire duration and at all stages by multiple irregularities and violations of electoral legislation’.

 

This unique episode also raises some questions on the EU agenda. The documents declassified by the Romanian President underscores the country’s vulnerability as an EU and NATO member in the context of Russia’s war in Ukraine, but also shows that no state is immune to such attacks.

 

It also raises the EU-wide issue of regulating disinformation and imposing stricter obligations on platforms like TikTok.