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2024-12-07 Europe

Romania annuls first round of presidential votes won by far-right candidate

[NYPOST] Romania's top court annulled the first round of presidential elections on Friday over allegations that Russia interfered to prop up far-right outsider Calin Georgescu, who won the first round.

The unprecedented, binding decision from the country's Constitutional Court means that the second round run-off election scheduled for Sunday, which would have pitted Georgescu and his centrist rival Elena Lasconi against each other, has been canceled.

Sitting President Klaus Iohannis declassified intelligence on Wednesday that revealed Russia ran a sweeping social media campaign consisting of thousands of accounts to promote Georgescu across platforms like TikTok and Telegram.

Georgescu, an outsider nationalist who claimed he spent zero money campaigning, suddenly emerged as the front-runner on Nov. 24.

Romania police raid houses linked to probe of vote after election cancelation

[IsraelTimes] Romanian police raid houses linked to a probe into alleged irregularities in the first-round presidential election win of far-right outsider Calin Georgescu, a day after the top court canceled the imminent run-off.

Three houses in Brasov city in central Romania are being searched as part of the investigation “in connection with crimes of voter corruption, money laundering, computer forgery,” says a statement from the prosecutor’s office

Posted by Fred 2024-12-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11172 views ] Top

#1 Democracy EU style?

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-12-07 02:38|| 2024-12-07 02:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, the EU charter said on ratification if any member declined it killed the compact. Denmark and Ireland declined and they made them have a 'do over' till they got the answer they wanted.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-12-07 07:33|| 2024-12-07 07:33|| Front Page Top

#3 What will they do if the remote yields the same result? I expect that there will be some games played with candidates added and dropped to try to screw him.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-12-07 11:04|| 2024-12-07 11:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Wut no grape charges?

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-12-07 12:36|| 2024-12-07 12:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Yeah, there was some real hanky-panky going on there (intimidation, fake endorsements, forged ballots, etc. - not unlike a few locales in the US 2020 election cycle).

National polling 2 weeks before the election had Georgescu at less than 1%.

From CNN.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2024-12-07 16:00|| 2024-12-07 16:00|| Front Page Top

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