US Department of State, Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Profimedia Images
“The United States stands with the Romanian people, who are facing an unprecedented situation regarding the integrity of their elections,” the US State Department said on its website, after the Court Romania’s Constitutional Court canceled the presidential elections in Romania.
“Romanians must be confident that their elections reflect the democratic will of the Romanian people and are free from malicious foreign influences aimed at undermining the fairness of their elections. The integrity of elections in Romania is paramount for democracy hard-earned of the Romans,” he says. Statement of the United States Department of State.
“No other country or foreign actor has this right,” says the same source.
The United States Department of State also conveys that it has “taken note” of the decision of the Constitutional Court of Romania regarding the presidential elections in Romania, stating that “the United States reaffirms its confidence in the institutions and Romania’s democratic processes, including investigations into malicious foreign influence.
Washington urges calm
“We call on all parties to support Romania’s constitutional order and to engage in a peaceful democratic process, free from threats of violence and intimidation and reflecting the democratic will of the Romanian people,” the statement added.
The State Department statement comes after the same institution on Wednesday, after the declassification of the CSAT report warned Romania of “serious negative consequences” of the country’s distance from the West and emphasized that “the progress made with difficulty by Romania in its anchoring in the transatlantic community cannot be called into question by foreign actors trying to divert foreign policy of Romania from its Western alliances”.
And the head of the diplomacy of the United States, Antony Blinken, spoke on Thursday, at the meeting of the ministers of foreign affairs of the OSCE, about the presidential elections in our country, saying that “the Romanian authorities discovered a Russian effort – large-scale and well-financed – to influence the recent presidential elections.”
The first round of presidential elections in Romania has been cancelledthrough the unprecedented decision taken by the Constitutional Court on Friday. In the motivation of the decisionCCR says that “voters were misinformed”, the electoral process was violent and there were violations of the law that distorted the free character of the citizens’ vote.
