Romania’s pro-Russian candidate threatens with jail the judges who canceled his electoral victory

MADRID Dec. 17 () –

Calin Georgescu, a candidate considered pro-Russian in the annulled November presidential elections, has threatened the judges of the Constitutional Court with “harsh years in prison” following their decision to annul the results of the first round and have urged them to repair the “error” that they have committed.

“Repair your mistake so that people trust again in the correct judgment of the institutions, otherwise you will not find refuge even in hell!” he claimed on his social networks, after this Monday he presented an appeal to annul the decision of the Constitutional Court.

Georgescu wanted to remind the magistrates that “no one is above the law” and warned them that “they run the risk of paying with harsh years in prison” for their decision to annul that first round in which he won, to the surprise of everyone. with approximately 23 percent of the votes.

“Do not forget that no one is above the law, not even you, especially you, those who should have protected the law,” he said, urging judges to “immediately fix the injustice” committed against the Romanian people. “God is only one, do not consider yourselves his equals!” he snapped.

Georgescu went to the headquarters of the Superior Court of Cassation and Justice this Monday to try to reverse the December 6 ruling of the Constitutional Court that annulled the first round of the elections. “What is happening today in Romania can be a very dangerous precedent throughout the world,” he warned.

When there were barely two days left for Romanians to go to vote in the second round of the presidential elections, the Constitutional Court, amid accusations of Russian interference and after the declassification of Intelligence reports in that regard, decided to annul the first results, although not He specified the reasons.

Romania’s Intelligence services claimed that almost 800 Tiktok accounts created by a “foreign state” in 2016 were suddenly activated during the campaign to support Georgescu, while another 25,000 were created two weeks before the elections.

Georgescu, who claimed not to have spent any money on his campaign, saw his messages – which were not marked as political content – ​​spread massively through these thousands of TikTok accounts, thus violating Romanian electoral laws.