nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/60b2d4d62859cfe1 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 241207s2024||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/60b2d4d62859cfe1 doi eng 342 23 Selejan-Gutan, Bianca Author aut The Second Round that Wasn’t - Why The Romanian Constitutional Court Annulled the Presidential Elections Selejan-Gutan, Bianca Verfassungsblog 2024-12-07 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier 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? CC BY-SA 4.0 Election law Presidential Elections Romanian Constitutional Court Rumänien Rumänien. Curtea Constituţională Rumänien. Präsident Russian disinformation romania (DE-588)4050939-4 gnd Rumänien (DE-588)5115736-6 gnd Rumänien. Curtea Constituţională (DE-588)4556489-9 gnd Rumänien. Präsident Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-second-round-that-wasnt/ raw object