Romanian Constitutional Court confirms: runoff election will take place

Romania’s Constitutional Court has on Monday evening Request for cancellation the first round of the Presidential election which was introduced by the defeated candidate Cristian Terhes, as unfounded rejected and the election results recognized.

Die Runoff election for the highest state office between the ultra-right Surprise candidate Calin Georgescu and the western oriented Elena Lasconi is carried out, can therefore according to plan this one Sunday take place.

Non-transparent campaign financing

The Constitutional Court already had one last week similar request another defeated presidential candidate for inadmissible found. Stefan Popescu totally had that too non-transparent campaign financing of the right-wing extremist Georgescu, who emerged victorious in the first round of voting, as not conforming to the constitution. The Constitution of Romania stipulates that the results of a presidential election can be annulled if they “on fraud” and influenced “the order of the candidates who moved into the runoff election”.

In the runoff, Georgescu will face conservative opposition leader Elena Lasconi, who came in second place. The Social Democratic Prime Minister and favorite Marcel Ciolacu Surprisingly, he only came third and didn’t make it into the runoff.

Last Sunday the Romanians also had one new parliament chosen. The social democratic PSD became the strongest party. But right-wing extremist parties also performed surprisingly well.