A top Romanian court has annulled the first round of the country’s presidential election, days after declassified intelligence alleged Russia ran a coordinated online campaign to promote the far-right outsider who won the first round.
The momentous move by the court effectively voids the national election, which will have to be re-run.
The constitutional court’s decision – which is final – came on Friday after President Klaus Iohannis declassified intelligence two days earlier that alleged Moscow ran a sprawling drive comprising thousands of social media accounts to promote the pro-Russian candidate Călin Georgescu across platforms like TikTok and Telegram.
Huh, I wonder if there are other countries that recently had elections were a pro-Russian candidate was elected after being supported by Russian propaganda? 🤔
Unless they’re permanently getting rid of democracy like Ukraine did I’m not sure how this helps. The people convinced by the ‘propaganda’ are just going to vote the same way, and the people unconvinced aren’t going to vote harder unless Romania has more than one vote per person or something.
Turnout was 52%. If this motivates more people to vote, they might not vote in the same manner.
