Days before the second round of the presidential election was scheduled to begin, Romania’s constitutional court declared the first round’s results invalid.
It implies that the administration will have to choose a new voting date and that the process will be repeated from the beginning.
Calin Georgescu, a little-known far-right NATO skeptic who has complimented Vladimir Putin in the past, won the first round.
The court’s ruling follows the declassification of intelligence materials that revealed Georgescu benefited from a large-scale, foreign-conducted influence effort to sway the vote’s outcome.
The court’s annulment judgment, according to departing Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu.
