Romania – The First “Post-Election” Democracy?
7th March 2025
In December 2024, a Romanian court cancelled the second round of the planned Presidential election and annulled the completed first round, citing (totally theoretical) “Russian interference”.
This caused massive protests in Romania, as you can imagine. The first round had been won by right winger C?lin Georgescu following a social media-based campaign, and he was predicted to quite easily win the second round as well.
The Romanian opposition – denied a likely victory – took their case to the European Court of Human Rights.
Then, earlier today, the ECHR threw the case out without even hearing it. Apparently, the Romanian courts were perfectly within their rights to simply indefinitely postpone their election on the basis of unproven allegations, and all those people who already voted and wanted to vote again can just go to hell.
This is the ECHR, which lectures the world on rights and democratic norms on the regular.
And everyone is apparently just fine with it. It’s crazy.