The general mayor of the capital, Nicuşor Dan, believes that the cancellation of the presidential election is a failure of state institutions, referring to the secret services, the Permanent Electoral Authority and ANAF, and the president of Romania, Klaus Iohannis, has the greatest responsibility to clarify what happened.
“The fact that we ended up having an election cancellation is obviously a failure of state institutions and here we are talking about services, we are talking about the Prosecutor’s Office, the Electoral Authority, possibly ANAF, I don’t know and obviously the president of Romania, that this situation has come to this. The Constitutional Court has made this decision. Now it is extremely, extremely important that exactly the institutions that I mentioned clarify, because otherwise trust in state institutions will decrease greatly, that this institution of election is the most important institution of democracy, the one in which people decide who will lead them. So it is very, very important that the institutions I mentioned clarify what happened,” Nicuşor Dan said on Antena 3.
He was asked how he sees the extension of President Iohannis’ mandate until May, when the presidential elections will take place.
“For the image of Romania, which is not the happiest these days, I don’t think another resignation of a head of state would be the happiest thing. But, the most important thing is, and I said it and I repeat it, the President of Romania has the greatest responsibility in clarifying what happened in the canceled elections of November 24 because he is the head of the CSAT, he works with the services, so with the information and of course for such an important issue he works, is in direct contact, with our foreign partners who can possibly bring us additional information for a possible implication of a rogue state which can only be Russia. So I believe that President Iohannis has this main responsibility to clarify what happened”, also declared the mayor of the Capital, who previously announced that he will run in the presidential elections as an independent.
Nicuşor Dan was also asked whether the reasons for the cancellation of the elections were external to Romania, rather internal to Romania, or all of them together.
“I think all of it together. I mean, on the one hand, we had, and this is simple and it turned out, we had a big discrepancy between a candidate who said zero expenses and a campaign that every specialist says costs and costs considerably, in terms of the technical mechanisms that were used, the IT technology and everything else that was used, it is much superior to what the opposing candidates used. And these are things that exist, but that cost money,” replied Nicuşor Dan.
The general mayor of the capital stressed that he is rather inclined to believe that Moscow was involved in the presidential elections.
“On the other hand, I am inclined to believe that there was an influence from Russia, meaning what I believe is there is a network of websites, of small online magazines that all promote each other and that promote the Russian narrative, so this is a fact. It must be proven whether this network organically or paid helped Călin Georgescu’s campaign. In my opinion, we still don’t have proof of this,” said Nicuşor Dan.
Nice firm questions raised from Dan. But for crying out load DANNNN… do not use the Russian story anymore, it is cheap and worn out globally.