Romania's pro-European parties
have agreed to form a governing majority that will exclude the
hard right and potentially endorse a single candidate for a
rerun of the country's annulled presidential election, The
Guardian reports.
The ruling leftist Social Democrats won the most seats in the
parliamentary election on December 1, but three ultranationalist
and hard-right groups, some with overt pro-Russian sympathies,
won more than one-third of the seats.
The parliamentary ballot was sandwiched between two rounds of a
presidential election in which far-right NATO critic Călin
Georgescu rose from relative obscurity to become the surprise
frontrunner. This prompted accusations of Russian meddling, and
the country's top court annulled the presidential vote on
Friday, saying the entire process would have to be rerun.
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