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Romania’s Constitutional Court unanimously rejected George Simion’s request that the country’s presidential elections be annulled.
Meeting on May 22, the Constitutional Court, “debated the request for annulment of the elections for the office of President of Romania in the second round of elections on May 18, 2025, formulated by Mr. George-Nicolae Simion,” the court said in a statement.
Following the deliberations, the Constitutional Court unanimously “rejected the request” as “unfounded”, it said.
The decision is “final and shall be communicated to the Central Electoral Bureau”, it said.
It added its arguments in reaching the decision “will be published in the Official Gazette”.
With the ruling, the result of the presidential elections can now be validated, making Nicușor Dan the next Romanian president.
Dan told Romania’s media the cancellation petition by runner-up Simion was “completely artificial”.
“I think it was clear from the beginning to everyone that it was something complete, completely artificial. I haven’t seen the written one, but to say that hundreds of millions of euros were given in Moldova is totally unreasonable,” Dan said.
For his part, Simion called his request’s rejection a “continued coup d’état by the court”.
“All we have to do is fight! I call you to join me, today and in the coming weeks!”, the AUR president wrote on Facebook, adding there would be new elections soon.
My mission has always been to ensure and safeguard #democracy for the Romanian people. Something I feel that they have never truly had.
— 🇷🇴 George Simion 🇲🇩 (@georgesimion) May 22, 2025
While I’m target of latest attempt of this injustice, I refuse to play the victim.
I will Fight, Fight, Fight to
Make #Romania Great Again!
While the Constitutional Court was debating Simion’s request, his party issued a press release, saying the Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP) and the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) both “refuse transparency and block the access of AUR specialists to verify the fairness of the elections”.
The party said those bodies had denied “access of a computer scientist appointed by the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) to the computer system for managing the electoral process, thus blocking any possibility of independent verification of the correctness of the vote.”
The AUR claimed personal numeric codes had been used multiple times, which could indicate fraud,. They said they also wanted to check if deceased people voted.
The court’s lack of transparency and unwillingness to hear their arguments proved the judges applied “double standards”, said the AUR.
The same Constitutional Court famously annulled the first round of the presidential election on December 6, 2024, based on what turned out to be comparatively flimsy allegations of Russian interference and electoral irregularities.
George Simion, runner-up in Romania’s May 18 presidential elections, asked the country’s Constitutional Court to annul the recent elections, accusing France and Moldova of engaging in foreign interference. https://t.co/xDMS46o6ET
— Brussels Signal (@brusselssignal) May 21, 2025