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Romanian court cancels election results 2024 Dec 6
Hot on the heels of whatever breach of democracy is going on in South Korea, the Romanian Supreme Court has canceled the first round of their presidential election after it just took place, accusing the winner of achieving victory using underhanded tactics. Which, to be fair, the winner was an unknown TikToker with no political party affiliation and a strange dislike of NATO and like of Russia and squiffy finances, so maybe the courts have a point there. But still, that the outgoing prime minister gave a speech to Romania's NATO allies saying "our democracy is 100% fine here and running completely normally with business as usual, we double-plus promise you" wasn't terribly reassuring.
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