Romanian Court Orders Dramatic Recount of 9.4 Million Ballots After Shock Presidential Election Win by Outsider

A top court in Romania has dramatically called for a recount of 9.4 million ballots in the nation’s presidential election.

It comes after a right-wing outsider soared to victory in the first round in a shocking upset to the establishment.

The victory of Călin Georgescu has sent panic through Romania’s political establishment.

Critics and their corporate media allies have cast him as an authoritarian with Russian sympathies.

Romania is a NATO member and borders Ukraine.

The Constitutional Court of Romania ordered the recount Thursday after complaints of fraud from one of the candidates, Cristian Terhes, who received 1% of the vote.

The second-place candidate, Elena Lasconi, criticized the court’s intervention as a troubling and undemocratic move.

Lasconi was set to face Georgescu in a runoff on December 8.

However, the recount has thrown the election into turmoil.

“Extremism is fought by voting, not backstage games,” she said.

Lasconi added that what the court “is trying to do now is absolutely horrific for a democratic country.”

Georgescu’s stunning victory was powered by TikTok, where the previously obscure figure generated a massive, viral following.

Romanian national security officials have cast his victory as illegitimate.

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They are alleging that he benefited from a pro-Russian covert influence operation meant to destabilize NATO.

The Supreme Council of National Defense, which oversees national security, said:

“Romania, along with other states on NATO’s Eastern Flank, has become a priority for the hostile actions of some state and non-state actors.”

The perplexity that Georgescu’s critics have expressed over his victory may help explain why he won.

While they claim his TikTok influence is fake or part of a Russian plot, it’s also possible that they simply did not anticipate the level of dissatisfaction voters felt towards the political establishment.

Georgescu’s TikTok messaging focused on ending the war in Ukraine and keeping Romania out of the conflict.

His sentiments have been shared by U.S. politicians like President Donald Trump.

Similarly, Trump has been baselessly accused of working for Russia.

While TikTok was central to Georgescu’s stunning upset.

However, the company has denied giving preferential treatment to any candidate.

The platform says Georgescu’s account was labeled “the same way as every other candidate on TikTok, and subject to exactly the same rules and restrictions.”

Certainly, the crisis in Romania will seem familiar to many in the United States.

In the U.S., Democrats sought unsuccessfully to jail Trump and keep him off the ballot in the name of “saving democracy.”

“They want to ban the right of the Romanian people to speak freely,” Georgescu told a local news channel Wednesday.

He added that the result “was perfectly democratic and legitimate.”

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