In Romania, Calin Georgescu, the
far-right candidate in the presidential election annulled by the
Constitutional Court, went stmane symbolically and in protest,
accompanied by a group of his supporters, to a polling station
in Bucharest, where runoff voting was to take place. "I came
here to express all my sadness at the cancellation of what lies
at the heart of the values of the Romanian people, namely the
right to democracy and the right to a free vote. Today is
Constitution Day, but there is nothing constitutional in Romania
anymore," Georgescu said, quoted by regional media. According to
him, the authorities canceled the vote out of fear of his
victory. Yesterday, the far-right and pro-Russian candidate, who
ran for president as an independent, had appealed to voters to
go to the polls today anyway to protest the High Court's
decision. 'Georgescu president', 'Thieves', 'Open the polling
stations' - some of the slogans chanted by supporters of
Georgescu, who has announced appeals against the annulment of
the presidential election before the Romanian courts and the
European Court of Human Rights. More of his supporters went to
polling stations symbolically in protest. The Constitutional
Court surprisingly annulled the results of the first round of
the presidential election Friday, just two days before today's
scheduled runoff between Georgescu and moderate center-right
candidate Elena Lasconi, after the desecration of confidential
intelligence service documents from which Russia's interference
in support of Georgescu's campaign, conducted almost entirely on
TikTok, a platform that allegedly favored the far-right
candidate.
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