They sat on this info for almost three weeks. Doing it now discards so much money and effort invested by people working the election stations, the people in other countries that already voted, etc. Not to mention that it communicates to the everyone that their vote doesn't count if it's not for the right candidate. A vote made under wrong assumptions is still a vote cast democratically. In my opinion this late decision makes a mocking of a real democratic process.
It's also very likely to have the side-effect of destroying Mrs. Lasconi's chances at the presidency. Who do you think that the Georgescu voters will vote for now? Not her for sure. I bet there will be a Simion vs. Ciolacu battle next time, and there we'll go again with choosing the "lesser of the two evils".
Im not sure why and how this works, just saying that having Russia create 10 million fake accounts (that we know of) in a country of 19 million is clearly foreign interference.
This is a whole different animal.
Why Georgians should be scared?
Funny that you know this, but the actual court decision that should show proof of this has yet to be released. Either you are spewing hearsay, are in the intelligence community and are sharing secret information or... you are lying.
Please, do link the so-far unreleased information that the court based its decision on. I'll wait.
You should really calm down with your finger pointing and conspiracy theories.
And you ignore the laws? You discover that the candidate do illegal stuff?
Incidentally, the Governor was re-elected in an upset victory after being ousted by the Hyogo Prefecture Legislature over alleged power harrassment scandals. Yes, the Japanese establishment hates him and are doing anything possible to get rid of him.
As long as it's legal, there is nothing very wrong with it. If he committed crimes that influenced the election, then the election is void and he should be banned from politics.
For what it's worth, it sounds like the runner-up candidate agrees:
> Lasconi condemned the court's ruling as "illegal" and "immoral", saying "today is the moment when the Romanian state has trampled on democracy".
Sorry, this is the constitution, it does not allow for years of appeals and dragging your feat. Are you really believing that the guy used zero funds and you need a court and 3 appeals to prove to you that he used more then ZERO funds ?
> No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.
The US constitution does not just "allow" for years of appeals, it guarantees your right to defend yourself through that process.
Don't worry, the pro Ruzzian traitor will have his appeals and lawyers to defend him from fraud and the other accusations, the elections were cancelled and will be repeated so we do not let Ruzzia influence them.
What does the US constitution say if it is discovered that there is credible evidence for :
1 a foreign power was involved in election and it affected the results (illegal in Romania)
2 the candidate that commuted fraud by not declaring the money he used (this is illegal in Romania)
3 the guy was unknown for the media and public before election so nobody checked him, now that Tic Tok made him popular it was also discovered a lot of bullshit he done, one of them is glorifying Iron Guard a fascist party in Romania's past (it is illegal to do that here)
In USA you let Ruzzia to chose your president because you are only 99% sure? Then won't the president pardon himself? Create some civil war?
As I said the constitutional Court decided to repeat the election, they did not decided to jail the guy, or execute him, or even block him to run in Ruzzia.
What powers do you believe this grants, that would make logical sense in a situation like this?
For example, there is a specific law that specifies how the CCR can verify the results of the election (that certain institutions send the vote counts to it, in some specific format, within X days etc). The same law also specified what happens if the CCR finds that the vote counts are suspect - who can raise such concerns, within what dates, and most importantly, what happens next, when the elections are re-done and by whose decisions. This is how the court is supposed to function.
In contrast, the court has trampled on its own jurisprudence, where it only yesterday night (local time) declared that it can't hear any new claims about the elections until the end of the next round.
> [the Constitutional Court] ensures that the procedures for the election of the Romanian President are followed
I have no context on this beyond what you're writing, so I'm taking everything you're saying at face value. But even when I do that... don't you feel "the legislature shall have the power to organize the functioning of the court regarding elections" is a manifestly different sentence from "the court ensures that the procedures for the election of the Romanian President are followed, and confirms the results of the vote"?
> (2) The President of Romania shall guard the observance of the Constitution and the proper functioning of the public authorities. To this effect, he shall act as a mediator between the Powers in the State, as well as between the State and society.
The official English wording of the role of the court is:
> f) to guard the observance of the procedure for the election of the President of Romania and to confirm the ballot returns;
Note the similarity of the verbiage. I don't think the first one can be read to mean that the president can interfere with any authority they think might not properly be respecting the Constitution. I don't believe this is the intended reading, and definitely no one recognizes such a power for the President of Romania. So, I don't think the equivalent verbiage in the article on the power of the CCR should be read to give them the power to decide anything they want on the electoral process.
Of course, I'm not a lawyer, just a citizen of this country. But to me it doesn't seem proper that a Court can devise procedures that are not specified in any law.
[0] https://www.presidency.ro/en/the-constitution-of-romania
The regular court system can pursue individuals who conspired with Russia (including, likely, Călin Georgescu himself!), prosecute and try them for treason.
Intelligence services and electoral authorities have the power to stop the interference while it is in progress, by forcing people and sites to take it down, banning entire domains if they don't comply, arresting people who are coordinating with foreign nationals, etc.
The election will be done again, and people can vote their favorite person again, this time with the full knowledge of who is behind them.
It sucks that authorities did nothing before the elections, but I suspect that disqualifying the fascist guy because of fraud and interference would have produced the exact same complains from his fans and the Ruzzian trolls.
Right? You would claim that he should be allowed to continue until the courts will decide it was fraud, and until the appeals are done and until the complains to the EU court are also complete.
Occasionally there are aberrations like Trump, which subsequently lead to the Powers That Be doing everything they can to make sure the vote is made "right".
"Democracy doesn't effect much" is not the same as "it does nothing at all".
s/hydra/nation/
TPTB aren't limited to one political party.