MADRID Dec. 2 () –
Romania’s electoral authority announced this Monday that the second round of the presidential elections – scheduled for December 8 – should be held as planned, after the recount ordered last week by the Constitutional Court did not question the results. of the first round, in which the ultranationalist Calin Georgescu and the conservative Elena Lasconi won.
The president of the Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP) of Romania, Toni Grebla, has reported that after the recount of the 9.4 million votes “there are no significant differences between the candidates”, although he has asked to wait for the confirmation of the Constitutional, which could occur in the following hours.
“He did not represent the Central Electoral Office, I speak on behalf of the Permanent Electoral Authority. From what I have found, there are no significant differences regarding the counting and recounting of votes,” Grebla explained in statements to the Romanian television channel. Digi24.
On Thursday the Constitutional Court asked the Central Electoral Office to do a recount of the presidential election after complaints filed by candidate Cristian Terhes, who alleged that votes transferred to Ludovic Orban, who withdrew from the race, went to Elena Lasconi.
On November 24, to everyone’s surprise, Georgescu won with 23 percent of the votes, followed by Lasconi, who won by a narrow margin, just about two thousand votes, over the prime minister, the social democrat Marcel Ciolacu, who after The electoral setback presented his resignation as president of the party.
The rise of the far right and the more Eurosceptic positions that the triumph of Georgescu, also considered pro-Russian, brought with it, seem to have been momentarily contained by the victory of the Social Democrats in the legislative elections this Sunday.
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