Romanian election annulled by top court

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Romania's top court has annulled the result of the first round of the country's presidential election. It said the entire process will have to be re-run, as CGTN’s Pablo Gutierrez explains.

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00:00We have some breaking news. Romania's Constitutional Court has just annulled

00:05the presidential election. Voting was to take place this Sunday. The decision

00:09comes one day after a declassified report revealing shocking details of

00:15foreign or alleged foreign interference. The report suggests that far-right

00:19candidate Kalin Georgescu's unexpected search in the first round was fueled by

00:24Russian-backed efforts. Investigators found that TikTok was flooded with

00:29unmarked content and paid influencers promoting Georgescu in violation, they

00:34said, of Romanian election laws. But that's not all. Romanian intelligence

00:39also uncovered over 85,000 hacking attempts targeting the country's

00:43electoral systems aimed at stealing or exposing sensitive data. The

00:49Constitutional Court said just now that a new election must take place at a

00:54later time next year.

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