The Constitutional Court confirmed the result of the first round of the presidential elections in Romania. The leader of the “Union for the Salvation of Romania” Elena Lasconi and far-right candidate Calin Georgescu are going to a runoff on December 8. This was announced by the president of the court, Marian Enacke, at a live press conference. The decision was made at a meeting earlier this evening, BTA reported.
On Thursday (November 28th), the court ordered the Central Electoral Bureau to recount the votes from the first round of the presidential election, a decision that local media described as unprecedented for the country. It came after two separate appeals seeking the annulment of the vote were filed in the Constitutional Court by two candidates who participated in the first round of the election.
One of them was rejected as late, and the other - of MEP Christian Terhesch, was accepted. He claimed that representatives of the "Union for the Salvation of Romania" committed abuses in support of their candidate Elena Lasconi, who came second. According to Terhes, several votes were moved from Ludovic Orbán, who withdrew from the race for Cotroceni, to Elena Lasconi. However, in the three sections indicated by him in the complaint, it is not about fraud, but about errors that were corrected in the last minutes. The conclusion is that Elena Lasconi remains with the same number of votes, local media note.
The recount of the votes from the first round of the presidential elections in Romania did not show major differences, said earlier today the chairman of the Permanent Electoral Authority (PEA) of Romania, Toni Grebla, in an interview with Digi24. In the early afternoon, the body handed over all the documentation, together with the centralized vote, to the Constitutional Court.
The campaign for the second round of the presidential elections was supposed to start on November 29.
This vote is the bankruptcy of the parties. This is how far-right independent candidate Calin Georgescu commented on the results of the parliamentary elections in Romania. In a video address, he commented that this outcome was expected, and the result of the parliamentary elections was a consequence of parliamentary decisions over the past 35 years.
“We are talking about the result of wrong decisions that Romanian politicians made, but also about the result of the right decisions that Romanians made”, notes Calin Georgescu.
A few days before the presidential run-off on December 8, he appealed to pensioners, the disabled, Romanians abroad and the various ethnic groups on the territory of Romania for their support. He also asked the residents of the Republic of Moldova to do the same, and then added:
“You will have my support for anything you think is good for your country”. Far-right independent candidate Calin Georgescu, who was little known to the Romanian public, surprisingly came first in the first round of the presidential election, relying mainly on a campaign by sharing videos on TikTok. The runoff is on December 8. Then Georgescu will face the leader of the “Union for the Salvation of Romania” Elena Lasconi.