MADRID 28 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Constitutional Court of Romania has ordered the recount of all the votes from the first round of last Sunday’s presidential elections in which, to the surprise of everyone, the far-right independent candidate and considered pro-Russian Calin Georgescu won.
On Wednesday, the Constitutional Court received two requests to cancel the first round of the elections that were presented by the candidates Sebastian Constantin Popescu and Cristian Terhes, who obtained marginal percentages of the vote, 0.15 and 1.03 percent, respectively.
The response to this appeal will likely be known this Friday afternoon, although it has not been ruled out that it will have to be postponed until Saturday, on the eve of the parliamentary elections on December 1. Just one week later, the second round of the presidential elections is scheduled.
Calin Georgescu, the new winner of that first round with 23 percent of the votes, has preferred to remain silent after hearing the news. “It is a decision of this institution, which we do not comment on,” his communication team concluded, according to the Romanian press.
If the second round goes ahead, Georgescu will face the conservative Elena Lasoni, who won by a narrow margin, by just about 2,000 votes, the prime minister, Marcel Ciolacu, who after the setback presented his resignation a few hours later as leader of the Romanian Social Democrats.