Summary
Romania’s Constitutional Court has ordered a recount of the November 24 presidential election after far-right candidate Calin Georgescu unexpectedly won the first round, despite polling below 5% beforehand.
Georgescu, critical of NATO and supportive of Russia’s Putin, will face centrist Elena Lasconi in a December 8 runoff.
The court rejected an application to annul the election, citing a missed deadline.
The decision comes amid reports of cyberattacks and allegations of TikTok of favoring the far-right candidate.
Honestly, not really. Most of them don’t pay any attention, they’re too busy living paycheck to paycheck and trying not to be homeless and don’t have the time to stay politically educated.
And yes, that is pretty paradoxically why so much of the country is in that position in the first place.