Elon Musk ramps up Romanian election dispute, branding chief judge a tyrant
December election voided after declassified documents showed suspicions of Russian interference in favour of far-right Nato critic Georgescu.
Elon Musk labelled the chief judge of Romania’s top court a “tyrant” on Thursday in the latest broadside aimed at Bucharest by a member of US President Donald Trump’s administration after the cancellation of a 2024 presidential election.
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Romania’s Constitutional Court voided the election in December before a second round of voting, after declassified security documents showed suspicions of Russian interference in favour of far-right Nato critic Calin Georgescu, accusations denied by Moscow.
On Wednesday, Constitutional Court chief judge Marian Enache denounced what he said were threats made by Georgescu, who has warned top court judges that should he be elected, they will be tried for high treason.
In Munich last week, US Vice-President J.D. Vance questioned the cancellation of Romania’s election, using it as an example of what he said was undemocratic censorship of free speech and political opponents by European governments.
Romanian independent far-right presidential candidate Calin Georgescu. Photo: Reuters
Musk, who is spearheading the Trump administration’s new Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), on Thursday shared a post on his X social media platform which said that Enache had rejected US pressure over whether Georgescu should be allowed to run in the repeat election in May.
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