Politico SKIPS 'Pro-EU' Romanian Presidential Candidate Slamming Election Annulment #Political
"Democracy Dies in Darkness" according to the Washington Post, but when democracy is annulled in broad daylight Politico thinks it is no big deal as long as it is the election of a candidate they oppose that is being cancelled.
Such is the attitude of the European edition of Politico towards the Romanian presidential election that was cancelled by that country's Constitutional Court due to what they claimed was interference by Russia on social media.
On Wednesday, Politico's Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing gleefully reported in a six-paragraph brief that "Romanian appeals court upholds scrubbing fishy presidential election."
A Romanian appeals court on Tuesday rejected far-right candidate Călin Georgescu’s challenge of a decision by the Constitutional Court to annul the country’s Nov. 24 presidential election.
The Constitutional Court had scrapped the election amid concerns over a Russian influence campaign that apparently helped ultranationalist Georgescu rocket from obscurity to win the first round. Georgescu’s ticket was buoyed by a TikTok campaign that Romania’s security services likened to previous Kremlin-run operations in Moldova and Ukraine.
See how that works? Just allege that Russia helped a candidate and then if a court agrees simply annul the election. Many liberals in America probably now wish they had come up with that election annulment shtick after their shock over the 2016 election results. The problem for Politico is they invoked the name of the runner up candidate in that annulled election and hyped her as the preferable alternative to the nasty "far right" candidate who came in first place.
The scuttled election between Georgescu — a pro-Russia, anti-EU and anti-NATO candidate — and Elena Lasconi, his center-right pro-EU challenger, was seen as pitting East against West in the country.
Georgescu’s prior praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his threats to halt aid to Ukraine prompted fears that his victory would see Romania drawn deeper into the Kremlin’s orbit. Lasconi, on the other hand, pledged to keep Romania on a path aligned with the West.
So Elena Lasconi is portrayed as the reasonable "pro-EU challenger" who "pledged to keep Romania on a path aligned with the West." Georgescu came in first with 23 percent of the vote, and Lasconi was second with 19 percent. Lasconi has also strongly denounced the annulment of the election. That fact wasn't included, like it doesn't make a difference.
Just three days before this article appeared in Politico, the UK Telegraph on Sunday published Lasconi's no-nonsense denunciation of the election annulment in "Romanian presidential candidate says intelligence agents should be fired over cancelled election."
Romanian intelligence chiefs should be fired for creating an “ambiguous” report used by judges to annul the country’s general election results, a leading candidate has said.
Speaking exclusively to The Telegraph, Elena Lasconi took aim at “intelligence agencies, police, prosecutors, and even the internal revenue service” for their roles in a shambolic election process which ended in its cancellation.
The attempt to overturn democracy by annulling an election was so egregious that even the runner up candidate who was hyped by Politico has strongly vilified it. But wait! There's more from Lasconi that is sure to make Politico even more uncomfortable with their tolerance for overturning elections.
Mr. Georgescu has now found an unlikely ally in his opponent, Ms Lasconi.
The court’s decision was “illegal, immoral, and crushes the very essence of our democracy,” she said.
“Intelligence agencies, police, prosecutors, and even the internal revenue service – all of them failed to intervene when they needed to. Some people should pay the price for letting this happen under their watch,” she told The Telegraph.
“I haven’t yet seen one person in charge within the intelligence community being fired or quitting their job.”
It is pretty clear that Elena Lasconi believes the annulment of the election was a subversion of the democratic process yet when you read Politico's version of events that very important viewpoint is completely missing.
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