The Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) rejected the request of AUR leader George Simion to cancel the second round of the presidential election on Thursday. It also validated the election result, won by Nicușor Dan with 53.6%.
The CCR stated on Wednesday that the AUR candidate’s application was submitted in copy and asked Simion to sign it in handwriting.
After the validation of the results of the May 18 election, the convening of the joint plenary session of Parliament will follow, and Nicușor Dan will take the oath of office, which is expected to take place on Monday next week. In the meantime, negotiations continue for the formation of the new government, in the context of Marcel Ciolacu’s resignation. The proposal for prime minister will be made by the new president of Romania.
President-elect Nicuşor Dan said on Thursday, regarding the AUR’s reaction to the validation of the elections, that there are “parties that are looking for scandal”, but in time, Romanians will become convinced of the aspects that differentiate the different political formations. Romania is a democratic state and has an elected president, added Nicuşor Dan.
“There are some parties that are looking for scandal, but I think that slowly, slowly, people will understand what is one and what is another”, said Nicuşor Dan, at the CCR, after the validation of the presidential elections. “Romania is a democratic state, it has an elected president and further each party conducts its campaign as it sees fit. If during these types of campaigns we will have physical, verbal violence, the institutions will do their duty”, he also pointed out.
Official: Swearing-in ceremony
Nicușor Dan will take the oath of office as president on Monday, at 12:00, at the Palace of Parliament, in a joint session of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. The decision regarding the day and time of the oath-taking was officially made on Thursday, in a session of the Permanent Joint Bureaus (BPR) of Parliament, which took place at 16:00. Previously, HotNews wrote, citing sources, that Nicușor Dan will take the oath on Monday in Parliament, at 12:00.
Once he takes the oath, Nicușor Dan officially becomes the President of Romania. After taking the oath, Nicușor Dan will leave for Cotroceni, where he will be met by Ilie Bolojan, according to the inauguration calendar. At Cotroceni Palace, on Marinescu Plateau, the handover-reception ceremony of the mandate will take place. After this moment, the two will enter Cotroceni Palace for a tête-à-tête discussion. After the discussion with Nicușor Dan, who will be the acting President of Romania at that time, Ilie Bolojan will leave Cotroceni Palace.
George Simion calls for protests
AUR leader George Simion is calling for protests after the Constitutional Court’s decision to reject his appeal against the May 18 presidential election results and to validate the election result won by Nicușor Dan with 53.6%.
“CCR continued the coup! All we can do is fight! I call you to join me, today and in the coming weeks!”, wrote George Simion on his Facebook page. Simion added a link to the post inviting people to sign the AUR party’s membership form.
Simion had requested the annulment of the elections
George Simion’s complaint, in which he challenges the results of the second round of the presidential elections, was registered with the Constitutional Court on Wednesday. “On May 20, 2025, at 11:41 p.m., a scanned document entitled “Request for the annulment of the elections” was sent to the Constitutional Court via e-mail, to which several annexes were attached.
The request is signed in handwriting, in copy, by Mr. George-Nicolae Simion,” the CCR said in a press release.
“We specify that, according to art. 7 of the Regulation on the organization and functioning of the Constitutional Court, applications addressed to the Constitutional Court must be signed in handwriting, in original, or by using a qualified electronic signature, by the date and time of the debates. This specification was communicated on May 21, 2025, at 9:06 am, to Mr. George-Nicolae Simion on the same email address from which the aforementioned application was communicated, in order to comply with the procedural requirements for registering the notification documents addressed to the Constitutional Court,” the constitutional court also says.
The leader and candidate of the AUR for the highest office in the state announced on Tuesday evening that his party will challenge the result of Sunday’s presidential elections at the Constitutional Court of Romania, a vote that Simion lost to Nicușor Dan.
“I want to announce to you that, just as Călin Georgescu was unjustly removed from the electoral competition and the elections were annulled by the CCR, unjustifiably, which was not based on evidence, we will challenge the election of Nicuşor Dan at the Constitutional Court, for exactly the same reasons for which they annulled the elections in December. I did not register in this competition at the end of March to be president, but to restore justice,” Simion said in a video message on his Facebook page.
The AUR leader had accused, without providing evidence, that “the votes of Moldovans” were bought. “100 million euros was the budget allocated in the Republic of Moldova, only for electoral tourism and for buying the will of the Bessarabian Romanians who were unjustly demonized in the last week. Because they used administrative resources of another state to cancel the elections. Because deceased people voted in the May 18 elections and no calculation in the world can show us that over 11,500,000 Romanians voted“, Simion accused.
The AUR leader also demanded the hearing in Romania of Telegram founder Pavel Durov. “Social networks were manipulated and algorithms were used to influence Romanian citizens. The testimony of the Telegram creator in which he says that the French government intervened to censor our voices during this period is telling and I demand the hearing of the Telegram creator before these elections are declared valid”, Simion also stated on Tuesday evening.
Shortly after, the head of Telegram came up with a response on the social network X. “I am ready to come and testify if it helps Romanian democracy,” Pavel Durov wrote in his message.
CCR in the role of a Monarch in parallel to a Hibride Regime. What we are seeing in the images is not good. The question here is who is highest force in a Democracy? The President of course. Who are these people that give out Decisions like they are Certificates?