{"id":6122,"date":"2024-12-06T14:02:13","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T14:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/06\/romanias-top-court-annuls-presidential-election-result\/"},"modified":"2024-12-06T14:02:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T14:02:13","slug":"romanias-top-court-annuls-presidential-election-result","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/06\/romanias-top-court-annuls-presidential-election-result\/","title":{"rendered":"Romania\u2019s top court annuls presidential election result"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Romania\u2019s constitutional court has annulled the first round of the country\u2019s 2024 presidential election process, which was narrowly won by far-right ultranationalist candidate Calin Georgescu amid allegations of Russian interference.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The historic decision means a second-round runoff that was scheduled for Sunday, when Georgescu would have gone head to head with his centrist rival Elena Lasconi, will no longer take place.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Friday\u2019s decision caps off a troubled election cycle in Romania, with the same court last week ordering a recount of the first-round votes.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            It also comes just days after the vote was hit with fears over foreign interference, after declassified documents from Romania\u2019s top security council found evidence of \u201caggressive hybrid Russian attacks.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            They also showed Georgescu was boosted on TikTok \u2013 the social media platform on which he largely ran his campaign \u2013 through algorithms, coordinated accounts and paid promotion, Reuters reported.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            In addition, the documents uncovered a series of cyber-attacks over the election period.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Georgescu, 62, started out his campaign with single-digit support but enjoyed a shock rise to prominence, narrowly emerging as leader in the election\u2019s first round with 22.9% of the vote to Lasconi\u2019s 19.2%.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            This is a developing story and will be updated.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romania\u2019s constitutional court has annulled the first round of the country\u2019s 2024 presidential election process, which was narrowly won by far-right ultranationalist candidate Calin Georgescu amid allegations of Russian interference. The historic decision means a second-round runoff that was scheduled for Sunday, when Georgescu would have gone head to head with his centrist rival Elena [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}