INTERVIEW – Romanian political scientist Alexandru Gussi reacts to the cancellation by the Constitutional Court of the presidential election, the second round of which was scheduled for Sunday. In the first, an outsider candidate came out on top, but suspicions of Russian interference weigh on the country.
The Romanian Constitutional Court canceled the presidential election this Friday, December 6, two days before the second round, the latest twist in a chaotic process troubled by suspicions of Russian interference in favor of the far-right candidate. The court decided to“cancel all” of the ballot in order to “ensure its validity and legality” and asks that “the entire electoral process” is starting again, according to a press release which plunged the Eastern European country into shock.
“The government will set a new date” subsequently, clarified the Court, which had nevertheless validated the results earlier in the week after a recount of the votes from the first round which concluded that there was no fraud. Călin Georgescu, an anti-system candidate classified on the far right and accused of being pro-Russian, came first with nearly 23% of the votes, ahead of another non-system candidate, Elena Lasconi, pro-European, who gets a…
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