Court has ordered recount of vote won by far-right candidate and will decide whether it needs to be rerunRomania’s constitutional court has deferred a decision on whether to annul the first-round vote in the country’s presidential election until Monday, a day after parliamentary elections in which far-right parties are forecast to post major gains.The court, which had already ordered a recount, considered for two hours on Friday a request to annul the 24 November vote, which was won by Călin Georgescu, a far-right, Moscow-friendly independent who had previously been polling at barely 5%. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/29/romanian-court-to-rule-on-whether-presidential-election-should-be-rerun-calin-georgescu
Author : Jon Henley Europe correspondent
Publish date : 2024-11-29 17:08:00
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Romanian court defers decision on annulling presidential vote
