http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/60b2d4d62859cfe1 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-second-round-that-wasnt/ The Second Round that Wasn’t - Why The Romanian Constitutional Court Annulled the Presidential Elections Selejan-Gutan, Bianca eng 2024-12-07 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Election law Presidential Elections Romanian Constitutional Court Rumänien Rumänien. Curtea Constituţională Rumänien. Präsident Russian disinformation romania Rumänien Rumänien. Curtea Constituţională Rumänien. Präsident Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 On 6 December 2024, the final day of Romania’s most turbulent presidential election campaign in the last 25 years, the Constitutional Court issued a ruling that was unprecedented not only in recent Romanian, but also in European constitutional history: it annulled the first round of the elections, held on 24 November, and ordered the entire electoral process to restart. Only 4 days earlier, on 2 December 2024, the same Court had ruled not to annul the first round of the elections. What led to this dramatic shift between those two dates?