Thursday, November 28, 2024, 5:30 p.m
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Sebastian Popescu, the president of the New Romania Party, submitted, on Thursday, November 28, to the Constitutional Court of Romania, an appeal for annulment, after the decision of the Court’s judges to reject his appeal regarding the annulment of the result of the first round of the presidential elections in Romania.
Sebastian Popescu writes, in the annulment appeal submitted to the CCR, that the judges of the Constitutional Court of Romania “wrongly calculated the lateness”, stating that he submitted the appeal regarding the annulment of the presidential elections within the legal term of three days.
As a consequence, Sebastian Popescu asks the CCR magistrates to judge his request on the merits.
In a previous statement for News.ro, Sebastian Popescu considered the CCR’s decision by which his request to cancel the first round of the presidential elections was rejected on the grounds of lateness as a “mega-donkey” and an “outrageous thing”.
Popsescu claimed that he submitted the request on November 27 at 9:30 a.m. and that he fell within the three-day deadline from the end of voting, provided by Law 370/2004 republished for the election of the President of Romania.
“The request was submitted within the deadline. Article 52 paragraph 2 of Law 370 of 2004 clearly states that the request for annulment is submitted to the registered Constitutional Court within 3 (three) days from the end of the voting. Well, do we know how to count to 3 or don’t we know how to count to 3? The three days were completed only last night (n. ed. Wednesday, November 27, at 9 p.m., but, according to jurisprudence, the deadline closes at 12 midnight on the last day of that last day. It is crying out in the sky for the CCR to take a such a decision, because I, having no recourse, can contest absolutely nothing except publicly”, Popescu told News.ro
According to article 52, para. 2 of Law 370/2004 republished, “the request to cancel the elections can be made by political parties, political alliances, electoral alliances, organizations of citizens belonging to national minorities represented in the Council of National Minorities and by candidates who participated in the elections, within the no later than 3 days after the close of voting; the request must be motivated and accompanied by the evidence on which it is based”.
In the annex to Decision no. 1,061 of August 28, 2024 regarding the Calendar Program for carrying out the necessary actions for the election of the President of Romania in 2024, at position no. 103 regarding appeals, the mention appears “within no more than 3 days from the end of voting, at the latest on: November 26, 2024, midnight, after which reference is made to the above-mentioned article of Law 370.
Sebastian Popescu complained about the fraud of the electoral law by Călin Georgescu, “through illegal financing of the entire electoral campaign, with support from outside the country’s borders, from state entities with the aim of destabilizing Romania.” Popescu also specifies, in the notification to the CCR, that, according to the Official Report of the AEP, the independent candidate Călin Georgescu reported ZERO lei expenses for the entire campaign, “although he carried out an extensive promotion activity through online materials, managing to obtain over 2.1 million votes, which obviously involves considerable logistical and financial resources”.
“It’s downright outrageous what can happen! The CCR found this solution to be false, aberrant, they found this trick so as not to pronounce either for admission or for rejection, because they did not have enough reasons to reject it and how to justify it. Then they said; let’s not go into the merits of the request, we reject it as late. Late in their minds! Forgive me! You can’t be like that…”, Sebastian Popescu also declared.
In Thursday’s meeting, the Constitutional Court decided to request the reverification and recount of all ballots, including the validly cast and invalid votes in the presidential elections.
Source: ziare.com
