MADRID Dec. 7 () –
The spokesperson for the United States Department of State, Matthew Miller, assured this Friday that the US Executive has “taken note” of the decision of the Romanian Justice to annul the results of the first round of the presidential elections and has claimed to the Romanian population a right to vote free of “malignant” interference from outside.
“We take note of the ruling of the Romanian Constitutional Court on the presidential elections in Romania,” Miller said in a post on his account on the social network X.
“Free and fair elections are an integral part of democracy and Romanians should be able to exercise their right to vote without malignant foreign influences aimed at undermining their democratic will,” he added.
The State Department’s statement comes after the Romanian Constitutional Court “unanimously” decreed this Friday the annulment of the first round of the presidential elections and, therefore, the obligation to repeat the entire process from the beginning, in a new date that the Government must now put on the table.
Doubts about the process had already led to a recount of the votes cast in the elections in which Romania’s Supreme Council of National Defense detected attempts at Russian interference. Likewise, the authorities denounced that the candidate Calin Georgescu – a nationalist and far-right – had benefited from a covert presence on TikTok, which did not classify him as a candidate.
Georgescu, who against all odds won in that first round on November 24 against the conservative Elena Lasconi, has assured that he will challenge the invalidation of the Constitutional Court before the Supreme Court.
The presidential candidate has repeatedly denied that his campaign was linked to Moscow, although he has always made very favorable statements towards Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, whom he has described as an exemplary leader.
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