EU likely pressured member state to cancel election – RT editor-in-chief

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Margarita Simonyan made the remarks after Romania canceled the presidential election first round in which a critic of NATO took first place

Western democracy is dead and the only thing left is to offer condolences, according to RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan. She was commenting on the cancelation of the results of the presidential election in Romania, in which independent candidate Calin Georgescu, a critic of NATO and the EU and a staunch opponent of aiding Ukraine, won the first-round vote.

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Romania’s Constitutional Court annulled the entire election ahead of a second round vote that was scheduled for Sunday, declaring that the ballot would be re-run at a later date.

According to Romanian media, the court made the decision based on declassified intelligence documents which allegedly found irregularities in Georgescu’s performance. They claimed that Georgescu’s candidacy was improperly promoted online, including on TikTok, by paid influencers and extremist right-wing groups, and that his campaign may have benefited from Russian interference – an allegation that Moscow has denied.

In an interview on the Russia 1 TV channel with Vladimir Solovyov, Simonyan slammed the decision by Romania’s court as “absolutely illegal,” and said it was most likely the result of interference from the EU.

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