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Romania's High Court of Cassation Rules Presidential Candidate Georgescu's Case Is Unfounded

On Jan. 17, Romania’s High Court of Cassation and Justice (ICCJ) handed down a rejection of the appeal that Romanian Presidential candidate Călin Georgescu filed against the Bucharest Court of Appeals, after that court rejected his suit challenging decisions by the Central Electoral Commission which were crucial in a massive suppression and annulment of Romania’s Presidential election. The ICCJ court announced that its decision is final.

The chain of events which led Georgescu to file his original suit against the Romanian Central Electoral Commission, and other state institutions, flowed from the unprecedented development—in effect, a coup d'état—in which the Romanian Constitutional Court, on Dec. 6, 2024 annulled the first round of Romania’s presidential elections, which took place on Nov. 24, 2024. In that election, the little-known, anti-NATO candidate Călin Georgescu won 22.9% of the vote. The neoliberal Elena Lasconi, of the Save Romania Union (USR), was second at 19.17%. These two leading candidates, by law, were to enter into a second-round election, in which the winner would become the President of Romania.

The Romanian Constitutional Court declared on Dec. 6 that the Nov. 24 election was annulled, and must be “entirely redone,” reportedly after then-President Klaus Iohannis produced alleged declassified intelligence reports, which charged that a Russian interference campaign had aided Georgescu. The frantic European Union ruling strata, shocked by Georgescu’s first-round victory, has itself reportedly interfered in the election by giving directions to the Constitutional Court to make the ruling it did.

Romania’s High Court of Cassation and Justice outrageously ruled on Jan. 17 that Georgescu’s appeal is “unfounded” and that the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) was merely executing the Constitutional Court’s decision from Dec. 6, which annulled the election, and that the ICCJ decision is final and binding, and thus, not subject to appeal.