The Romanian Constitutional Court on Thursday ordered the recount of all votes in the controversial presidential election. A ruling on the requested cancellation of the first round of the presidential elections has been postponed until tomorrow, Friday, and additional data has been requested, Romanian media report.
Two losing candidates contested the election because the winner of the first round, Calin Georgescu, failed to disclose his campaign financing. The requests for annulment of the first round of voting were filed by two defeated presidential candidates from the sovereigntist camp, Cristian Terhes and Sebastian Popescu.
Does Russia have a hand in this?
The Romanian constitution stipulates that constitutional judges can annul the results of the presidential election if they are based on “fraud” and influenced “the order of candidates who advanced to the second round.” Many commentators in Romania suspect that Russia is behind the election success of right-wing extremist Georgescu-Roegen.
The election winner claims to have used “zero” funds
Popescu confirmed to Romanian media that his application targets the completely opaque campaign financing of right-wing extremist Georgescu-Roegen, after claiming to the country’s central electoral authority that he was running his massive online campaign with “zero” funding – according to Social media and advertising experts consider impossible.
The candidate of the ruling Post-Communists (PSD) and incumbent Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, who was defeated in the presidential race, recently suspected that Georgescu-Roegen’s election campaign was “financed from abroad” and asked the responsible investigative authorities for clarification on the financial flows .
An appeal to constitutional guardians
In light of the current significant social tensions in the country between supporters of Georgescu-Roegen and citizens with strong pro-Western views, both his opponent in the second election, the head of the liberal-progressive reform party USR Elena Lasconi, and the new interim leader of the Liberals (PNL) had appealed to the constitutional guardians the day before: the elections and the votes cast must be respected; it would be a serious violation of democracy if the people’s votes were ignored – “regardless of whether we like the election results or not,” Lasconi said. For his part, the liberal leader had urged constitutional judges to rule with a “maximum sense of responsibility,” taking into account the deeply divided population.
Emergency meeting to consider “cyber attack”.
An emergency meeting of the country’s Supreme Defense Council (CSAT), convened by outgoing President Klaus Johannis, is also scheduled for next Thursday to investigate whether Sunday’s voting process was influenced by attacks on IT by “state or non-state cyber actors” . -The infrastructure of the country has been affected and whether there is a threat to the security of the country.
Source: Krone
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