Romania says 'trampled democracy' after election results overturned

Pro-Western Romanian presidential candidate Elena Lasconi said that democracy has been "trampled" in the country because of the decision to cancel the results of the first round of the presidential election. This was reported by the Romanian television channel Digi24 on December 6.

The leader of the Union for the Salvation of Romania (USR) party called the Constitutional Court's decision illegal and immoral.

"The economy is collapsing, you are destroying democracy, you are leading the country into anarchy. We had to continue voting to show respect for the wishes of the Romanian people," Lasconi addressed the court representatives.

She also emphasized that in a democracy, "presidents are not appointed by backroom negotiations."

"I know that I would win and I will win because the Romanian people know that I will fight for them," Lasconi summarized.

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Earlier in the day it was reported that the Constitutional Court (CC) of Romania annulled the results of the first round of the presidential election. It was specified that the final decision was made after the court session held on that day. In the near future, the government should approve new dates for the voting.

The first round of the presidential election in Romania was held on November 24. According to official data, independent candidate Calin Georgescu is leading with 22.94% of votes. The leader of the opposition party "Union for the Salvation of Romania" Elena Lasconi has 19.17% of votes. The second round was to be held on December 8, as none of the candidates could get more than 50%.

On November 28, the Constitutional Court of Romania demanded from the Central Election Commission (CEC) to recalculate the results of the first round. On November 29, the head of the Romanian CEC Tony Grebla said that if the Constitutional Court annuls the results of the first round, it could be held again on December 15. In this case, the second round of elections will have to be held on December 29, which causes a lot of inconvenience, he said.

On December 2, Russian President Vladimir Putin ridiculed the recount of votes in the Romanian elections. According to him, the authorities decided to take such a step only because they did not like the candidate who won the first round.