Far-right politician George Simion, who lost Romania’s presidential election, has asked the country’s Constitutional Court to annul the election results.
“I formally ask the Constitutional Court to cancel the Romanian presidential election (May 2025). For the same reasons for which the December elections were cancelled: external interference by state and non-state actors. This time proven by evidence! Neither France, nor Moldova, nor anyone else has the right to interfere in the election of another state,” he wrote on social network X.
In Romania, the electoral commission has counted all the votes cast in the presidential election held on 18 May, and the data shows that the centrist, pro-European and pro-Ukrainian mayor of Bucharest, Nicusor Dan, won.
According to the data cited, he received 53.6 per cent of the vote, while far-right candidate Giorghe Simion received 46.4 per cent.
Simion was nominated to replace Kelin Georgescu, who was not allowed to run again after winning the first round of voting in November. Romanian authorities annulled the results of that vote, claiming Russian interference in the election in favour of Georgescu.
In the first round of the new election, which was held on 4 May, Simion won about 41%, while Dan got almost 21%.
Simion has since been leading in most polls, although the latest figures show an almost even contest.