Court Cancels Election [semi-satire]

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Posted on 12/07/2024 8:20:42 AM PST by John Semmens

Citing "evidence" provided by the Romanian Intelligence Service alleging that Russian participation in a social media campaign may have unduly influenced voters, Romania's Constitutional Court annulled the first round results in which Calin Georgescu (Independent) finished first (22.9%) and Elena Lasconi (Save Romania Union) second (19.17%). This effectively cancels the top-two runoff leaving it up to Parliament and the Prime Minister to reschedule a new round one election.

Lasconi opposed the court's action, saying "the Romanian state trampled over democracy" and predicted that "God, the Romanian people, the truth and the law will prevail."

Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) party leader George Simion called the court decision a "coup d'état in full swing."

Incumbent Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu (Social Democratic Party), third-place finisher (19.15%) in the first round of voting for president, praised the ruling, saying "the decision to cancel the presidential elections is the only correct solution. Every runoff in the last 30 years has included a representative from the SDP." He went on to call "Georgescu a previously politically unknown candidate with dangerous views. He opposes the war in Ukraine, is against extending NATO further east, endorses Christian values, and wants national sovereignty."

US Secretary of State Tony Blinken expressed admiration for "the Romanian Court's decision to save the country's democracy from the potential election of a Donald Trump clone. We were denied this same kind of rescue when Sen. McConnell blocked the appointment of Merrick Garland to the US Supreme Court in 2016 and when Sen. Manchin (D) and Sen. Sinema (I) rejected President Biden's proposal to appoint more Supreme Court justices in 2018. Now, Romania will have another chance to elect a responsible government while we are doomed to suffer under the dictatorship of Donald Trump for the next four years."

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1 posted on 12/07/2024 8:20:42 AM PST by John Semmens

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