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Romania, Georgescu at polling station despite vote cancellation

Along with supporters. 'I am here in the name of democracy'

Redazione Ansa

(ANSA) - BELGRADO, DEC 8 - In Romania, Calin Georgescu, the far-right candidate in the presidential election annulled by the Constitutional Court, went stmane symbolically and in protest, accompanied by a group of his supporters, to a polling station in Bucharest, where runoff voting was to take place. "I came here to express all my sadness at the cancellation of what lies at the heart of the values of the Romanian people, namely the right to democracy and the right to a free vote. Today is Constitution Day, but there is nothing constitutional in Romania anymore," Georgescu said, quoted by regional media. According to him, the authorities canceled the vote out of fear of his victory. Yesterday, the far-right and pro-Russian candidate, who ran for president as an independent, had appealed to voters to go to the polls today anyway to protest the High Court's decision. 'Georgescu president', 'Thieves', 'Open the polling stations' - some of the slogans chanted by supporters of Georgescu, who has announced appeals against the annulment of the presidential election before the Romanian courts and the European Court of Human Rights. More of his supporters went to polling stations symbolically in protest. The Constitutional Court surprisingly annulled the results of the first round of the presidential election Friday, just two days before today's scheduled runoff between Georgescu and moderate center-right candidate Elena Lasconi, after the desecration of confidential intelligence service documents from which Russia's interference in support of Georgescu's campaign, conducted almost entirely on TikTok, a platform that allegedly favored the far-right candidate. (ANSA).
   

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