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Romania Constitutional Court Calls for Electoral Re-Count
Bucharest | 11 December 2009 |
The Court decided by a majority of votes that some 138,000 annulled votes should be re-examined in order to establish whether there are any differences between the signed ballots and reality, the court said in a statement.
The Constitutional Court on Thursday started legal procedures after Romania’s opposition filed a complaint contesting the outcome of the elections.
In the elections, incumbent Traian Basescu narrowly defeated the opposition leader Mircea Geoana. The vote gave Basescu 50.3 per cent against Geoana’s 49.7 per cent, or a difference of some 70,000 votes. The poll outcome was a reversal of earlier exit polls Sunday night that showed Geoana in the lead, again by less than one per cent.
Social Democrats claim there was a suspiciously high number of voided ballot papers, and have accused Basescu of organising “massive electoral tourism” by transporting people between polling stations to vote several times in different locations.
