Constitutional Court judges are to meet urgently on Friday for consultations after a large number of new requests to annul the presidential elections arrived at the Constitutional Court. The requests invoke documents declassified by the Supreme Council for National Defense, according to which the campaign of pro-Russian candidate Călin Georgescu was the result of manipulation orchestrated from outside the country.
The hearing takes place in the context in which, on Thursday, the Court announced that the first four requests for annulment of the elections will be analyzed after the 2nd round.
Today, an unprecedented meeting is taking place at the Constitutional Court, for an informal analysis of these requests to annul the presidential elections. According to Digi24 sources, many requests from civil society and not only have reached the Court’s table and, faced with this large number of requests, the judges of the Constitutional Court have decided to conduct a preliminary analysis of all these requests, of all the documents declassified by the CSAT, contrary to the statements made yesterday by the Constitutional Court that these elements cannot be analyzed until after the second round of voting. Therefore, the Constitutional Court will analyze whether there are sufficient arguments at the moment to not let the second round take place, to annul the elections. If, following the informal meeting, the judges decide to enter into a court session, then it will be a signal to all of us that it is possible that today the elections will be annulled.
The Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) had announced December 5, in a press release, that it has received requests and petitions regarding the presidential elections, which are to be examined, but specifies that “at this stage of the electoral process, the Court may examine appeals filed by qualified candidates in the second round of the presidential elections”.
“Considering the requests of mass media representatives regarding the receipt of petitions and requests regarding the conduct of the elections for the position of President of Romania, the Constitutional Court specifies that these have been registered and are to be examined according to constitutional and legal provisions, within the process of validating the elections“, the CCR announced in a press release sent this evening.
“At this stage of the electoral process, in accordance with the constitutional provisions, the Court may examine appeals filed by qualified candidates in the second round of the presidential elections,” the CCR also specifies. The clarifications come after, during the course of today, the Court received four notifications requesting the annulment of the results from the first round of the presidential elections, according to CCR officials.
Notifications in this regard were filed by the National School of Political and Administrative Studies (SNSPA), the National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism, the Calea Europeașa publication and independent candidate Cristian Terheş.
After the CCR validated the results of the first round of voting, there is no appeal against the decision already pronounced, declared the president of the AEP, Toni Greblă.
“After the CCR validated the results of the first round of voting, there is no appeal against that decision pronounced by the Court, and there is no longer, because the deadlines have been exceeded, any possibility of contesting the results of the first round of voting”, declared Toni Greblă, in an intervention on Antena 3.
Tudorel Toader, former Minister of Justice and former member of the Constitutional Court, declared that the notifications to the CCR are inadmissible. He specifies that the CCR can be notified directly by the People’s Advocate, the president of the country, the Government, the presidents of the two Chambers of Parliament or the High Court of Cassation and Justice.