President Klaus Iohannis Photo: presidency.ro
President Klaus Iohannis will make his first public speech since the presidential election, at the reception organized by the presidential administration at the Cotroceni Palace, on the occasion of the National Day.
The traditional reception of the 1st of December in Cotroceni starts at 6 pm, again HotNews will broadcast the president’s remarks live.
The speech the president will make is his first public appearance since the November 24 presidential election. Then, after voting at the Jean Monnet High School in Bucharest, he sent a short message to the Romanians: “Let them vote!”
On November 25, at the request of several newsrooms, the presidential administration announced that the head of state did not receive information from the secret services in relation to the existence of interference in the electoral process, nor on the way Călin Georgescu was promoted on social networks.
“The President of Romania has not received information from state institutions regarding the existence of risks of influencing the presidential elections or regarding external interference in the electoral process, nor regarding a way to promote the candidate mentioned in your question on certain social networks, which will raise suspicions”, it was said in the response of the presidential administration.
On November 28 he held a meeting of the Supreme Council of Defense of the Country, at the end of which the presidential administration published a statement in which it was said that CSAT found that there are cyber attacks with the aim of influencing the equity of the country. the first round of the presidential election.
The Presidential Administration said that “in the current context of regional and especially electoral security, Romania, together with other states on the Eastern Flank of NATO, has become a priority for the hostile actions of certain actors state and non-state, especially the Russian Federation, is a growing interest on their part to influence the public agenda in Romanian society and social cohesion”.
In the same statement sent at the end of the CSAT meeting convened by Iohannis, it is mentioned that “a candidate for the presidential elections benefited from massive exposure due to the preferential treatment that the TikTok platform gave him for not marking as a political candidate, respectively without requiring the obligation to mark the electoral video materials with the unique identification code assigned by the Permanent Electoral Authority when designating the fiduciary financial coordinator, an obligation imposed by electoral legislation”.
According to the cited source, the members of the CSAT have asked the authorities with powers in the field of national security, those with powers in the link of the electoral process, as well as the criminal investigation bodies to take urgently the necessary steps, to the legal powers, “to clarify the problems presented in the Council of the meeting”.
