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MADRID Jan. 3 () –
The winner of the first round of the Romanian presidential elections, Calin Georgescu, appealed this Friday before the High Court against the ruling of the Bucharest appeals court that rejected his claim against the electoral authorities who adopted the Constitutional decision to cancel the result of the ballot boxes.
Georgescu has presented this new appeal just a few days after appealing to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to reverse that ruling of the Constitutional Court and force the Romanian State to hold a second round that would pit it against the conservative Elena Lasconi.
Presenting himself as an independent candidate, Georgescu, whose sovereigntist speech far from the path set by the European Union and NATO obtained, to everyone’s surprise, more than 23 percent of the votes, has made use of the five days of margin he had to appeal the sentence. Cristina Ardelean, Romanian media report.
Ardelean rejected as unfounded the lawsuit presented by Georgescu against the measures adopted by the Central Electoral Office (BEC) based on the ruling of the Constitutional Court that, after the declassification of Intelligence reports on Russian interference in the elections and two days after the second return, annulled the first results, although he did not specify 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.
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