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Romanian court defers decision on annulling presidential vote
The Guardian
|November 30, 2024
Romania's constitutional court has deferred a decision on whether to annul the first-round vote in the country's presidential race until Monday, a day after parliamentary elections in which far-right parties are forecast to make significant gains.
The court, which had already ordered a recount, considered for two hours yesterday a request to annul the 24 November vote, which was comfortably won by Calin Georgescu, a far-right, Moscow-friendly independent who had previously been polling at barely 5%.
Georgescu claimed his campaign had incurred zero expenses and was based heavily on viral TikTok videos, reportedly boosted by bot-like activity.
There have been multiple allegations of fraud and foreign interference in the election.
Meanwhile, polls suggest the far-right Alliance for the Union of Romanians could win with about 22% of the vote in tomorrow's parliamentary elections, just ahead of the centre-left Social Democrat party.
This story is from the November 30, 2024 edition of The Guardian.
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