It has declared the obligation to repeat the entire election process from the beginning, and it will be the government that will have to choose a date for this.
The Constitutional Court delivered its ruling this Friday cancellation of the first round of the presidential elections and therefore the obligation to repeat the entire process from the beginning, at a date that the government must now put on the table.
The candidate independent Calin Georgescuwith a nationalist discourse and far rightwon in that first round against all odds, against the conservative Elena Lasconi. Both would face each other again at the polls next Sunday.
Doubts about the process had led to a recount of votes cast in these elections, with Romania’s Supreme Council for National Defense discovering attempts at Russian interference. Similarly, authorities reported that Georgescu-Roegen had benefited from a secret presence on TikTok, which did not classify him as a candidate.
Source: EITB
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