Constitutional Court to decide on Friday whether to annul first round results following complaints poll subject to foreign interference

BUCHAREST — Romania’s Constitutional Court on Thursday asked the country’s top election authority to recount and check again all ballots from Sunday’s presidential election first round. The Central Electoral Bureau will meet this afternoon to decide on the next steps.

In Romania, the far-right nationalist Călin Georgescu shocked pollsters as he gathered the highest number of votes — around 23% — in the country’s presidential election, knocking Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu out of the race.

A top Romanian court has asked the official electoral authority to recount and verify all of the ballots cast in the first round of the presidential election

A Romanian top court will ask for a vote recount in the first round of the country's presidential election, Digi24 TV reported on Thursday citing court sources, after a shock victory for a far right candidate.

Romania’s Constitutional Court asks for recount of votes from first round in presidential race.

A top Romanian court on Thursday asked the official electoral authority to recount and verify all of the ballots cast in the first-round of the presidential election. The Constitutional Court in Bucharest voted unanimously in favor of the recount,

By Iulian Ernst in Bucharest Romania’s Constitutional Court asked on November 28 for a recount of the votes cast in the first round of the presidential election that took place on November 24. The decision has major implications not only for the presidential election,