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| Romania annuls first round of presidential votes won by far-right candidate |
| 2024-12-07 |
| [NYPOST] Romania's top court annulled the first round of presidential elections on Friday over allegations that Russia interfered to prop up far-right outsider Calin Georgescu, who won the first round. The unprecedented, binding decision from the country's Constitutional Court means that the second round run-off election scheduled for Sunday, which would have pitted Georgescu and his centrist rival Elena Lasconi against each other, has been canceled. Sitting President Klaus Iohannis declassified intelligence on Wednesday that revealed Russia ran a sweeping social media campaign consisting of thousands of accounts to promote Georgescu across platforms like TikTok and Telegram. Georgescu, an outsider nationalist who claimed he spent zero money campaigning, suddenly emerged as the front-runner on Nov. 24. Romania police raid houses linked to probe of vote after election cancelation [IsraelTimes] Romanian police raid houses linked to a probe into alleged irregularities in the first-round presidential election win of far-right outsider Calin Georgescu, a day after the top court canceled the imminent run-off. Three houses in Brasov city in central Romania are being searched as part of the investigation “in connection with crimes of voter corruption, money laundering, computer forgery,” says a statement from the prosecutor’s office |
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