"On the basis of Article 145 letter f) of the Constitution, the entire electoral process of the election of the president of Romania, carried out on the basis of Government Decision 756/2024 on setting the date of the elections for the president of Romania in 2024 and Government Decision 1.061/2024 on the approval of the calendar for the implementation of the actions necessary for the election of the president of Romania in 2024, is annulled," reads the decision of the Constitutional Court, adopted unanimously this Friday.Basically, following this decision the results of the first round are declared null and void, and the presidential elections start from square one."The electoral process for the election of the President of Romania will be resumed in its entirety, with the Government to set a new date for the election of the President of Romania, as well as a new timetable for the necessary actions to be carried out," reads the CCR decision.The decision is final and generally binding and is published in the Official Journal of Romania, Part I.The arguments provided in the reasoning of the Constitutional Court Plenary's solution will be presented in the decision, which will be published in the Official Journal of Romania, Part I.Initially, the press reported that the judges of the Constitutional Court will meet on Friday in an informal meeting to analyze whether they will debate in an official session the requests filed regarding the annulment of the first round of the presidential elections,The judges then formally adopted the annulment of the presidential elections.On Thursday, the Supreme Council for National Defence (CSAT) declassified the information received from the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI), the Foreign Intelligence Service (SIE) and the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MAI) regarding the electoral campaign run by Calin Georgescu in the presidential elections.Thus, the information presented by SRI, SIE and the Ministry of Internal Affairs indicates that the financing of the campaign of the independent candidate Calin Georgescu on TikTok amounted to one million euros, that there were actions by a state-sponsored cyber actor targeting IT&C infrastructures supporting the electoral process, and that Romania is a target for aggressive Russian hybrid actions.Practically, following this decision, the results of the first round are annulled, and the presidential elections are restarted from scratch, including the program for the electoral campaign.
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