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Romanian runner-up wants presidential vote nixed for ‘external interferences’

May 21, 2025 GOVERNMENT, Spotlight 0

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ER Editor: A clever logic by Simion, who is wanting the weekend’s presidential election results annulled for precisely the same reasons that the Romanian Constitutional Court did following the original elections late last year – outside interference. But no proof was provided in the first case. Apparently, there is proof now.

The tweet issued by Simion and reproduced below, has an interesting response from head of France Soir news website, Xavier Azalbert —

Translation: Having downloaded the voting data by UAT, inconsistencies would appear on 23% of the UAT (territorial administrative unit, in total 2937) which represent 59% of the votes.  

A 22% increase in voters between the first and second rounds, whereas in 2019 it was only 7.1%  

By modeling the transfer of votes, and making various scenarios Simion would have had only between 18% and 22% of the new votes which is inconsistent with the polls before the second round.  

The 14.7% increase in voters compared to the 7.2% increase in 2019 represents almost 1.7 million voters.  Some UATs have vote allocations contrary to expectations or, for example, where Simion has fewer votes than in the first round.  The same analysis for Dan is in progress to identify the number of uat where the expectations are inconsistent.

UPDATE TWEETS from X account Daily Romania —

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Interesting —

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Romanian runner-up wants presidential vote nixed for ‘external interferences’

No one has the right to meddle in another nation’s elections, George Simion stated

RT

Right-wing EU critic George Simion has said he would challenge the result of Romania’s presidential election, claiming it was compromised by “foreign interference,” flagging France and Moldova in particular.

Sunday’s runoff saw pro-EU Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan defeat his Euroskeptic rival with 54% of the vote in the second round of Romania’s presidential election.

Romanian runner-up wants presidential vote nixed for ‘external interferences’
George Simion © Getty Images / Andrei Pungovschi / Stringer
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The rerun was ordered after Romania’s Constitutional Court annulled the results of the November election, in which independent candidate Calin Georgescu, an EU and NATO critic, finished first with 23% of the vote. The authorities claimed that there had been “irregularities” in his campaign, citing intelligence reports alleging Russian interference – allegations which Moscow has denied.

In a Tuesday post on X, Simion – who had been the frontrunner – said he had “officially” asked Romania’s top court to annul Sunday’s election result “for the very reasons the December elections were annulled.”

He claimed that there was evidence of “external interferences by state and non-state actors,” adding that “Neither France nor Moldova nor anyone else has the right to interfere in the elections of another state.”

Simion had previously claimed the electoral rolls contained some 1.7 million fictitious names and accused the government of busing in voters from neighboring Moldova. His Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) had also claimed that Moldova’s pro-EU ruling Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) had directed its million-strong diaspora in Romania to vote for Dan.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov, who has claimed French intelligence tried to pressure him into censoring conservative Romanian channels ahead of Sunday’s vote, reposted Simion’s message, saying he is “ready to come and testify if it helps Romanian democracy.”

Paris has denied Durov’s claim. Romanian officials, in turn, have accused Russia of interfering in the election without providing any proof.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has dismissed the accusations, calling the election “strange” and asserting the most popular candidate had been “forcibly” removed without justification. In response to Durov’s remarks, he also cited what he called the EU’s history of meddling in other countries’ affairs.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova also dismissed Bucharest’s accusations, calling the latest vote illegitimate and saying Romanian officials should clean up their own “electoral mess” instead of blaming others.

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