Orban says Romania's CC lacks rights to cancel presidential election

The leader of the Strong Right party, former Romanian Prime Minister Ludovic Orban said that the Romanian Constitutional Court does not have the authority to completely cancel the presidential election. This was announced by the leader of the "Force of the Right" party, former Romanian Prime Minister Ludovic Orban in an interview with Digi24 TV channel on December 7.

Orban specified that the Constitutional Court can annul exclusively the results of the first round of elections.

"The Constitutional Court does not have the power to annul elections, it only has the possibility to annul the first round of elections," the former prime minister said.

He specified that the candidates' election campaigns had noticed irregularities several months before the voting. According to him, the state bodies did not pay any attention to it.

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On the eve, December 6, 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 following the results of the court session held on that day. In the near future, the government should approve new dates for the voting.

On the same day, independent presidential candidate Calin Georgescu said that the decision of the Constitutional Court of Romania to annul the results of the first round of elections is an undermining of democracy and an "official coup d'état".

The first round of the Romanian presidential election was held on November 24. According to official data, independent candidate Calin Georgescu is leading with 22.94% of the vote. The leader of the opposition party "Union for the Salvation of Romania" Elena Lasconi has 19.17% of the 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.