Bucharest, Romania - Tough nationalists who lost the Romanian presidential election said Tuesday that he had asked the Supreme Court to cancel the election results, accusing foreign intervention and coordinated manipulation that affected Sunday's vote.
George Simion, a unified 38-year-old Romanian leader, received 53.6% of the vote, more than 829,000 votes after losing runoff to Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan.
Simon said in a statement that he had filed a request to the Romanian Constitutional Court to abolish the vote, claiming that he had "irrefutable evidence" that France, Moldova and "other actors" intervened in the vote, but provided no evidence. He also claimed that the “deceased” participated in the vote.
He accused “a well-planned effort to manipulate institutions, direct media narratives, and ultimately impose results that do not reflect the will of the Romanian population.”
Sunday's vote was denied in Moscow, with top right-wing outsider Calin Georgescu voted a few months after top right-wing outsider Calin Georgescu led the first round.
Simion took advantage of the election’s abolition and allied with Georgescu after ranking fourth in the race cancelled last year, who was banned from the election redo in March. In the first round of votes replayed on May 4, Simon won the landing campaign among 11 candidates to enter runoff.
During the campaign, Simion portrayed his movement as advocating conservative values such as patriotism, sovereignty, and family, and saw himself as a Romanian analogue to U.S. President Donald Trump.
He said Tuesday he would ask the court to cancel the May replay on the same grounds as last year's court ruling.
Hours after voting for Romanians abroad on Friday, Simon accused the Moldovan government of election fraud rejected by Moldovan and Romanian authorities.
Commenting with the Associated Press on Sunday, he reiterated that people were illegally transported to polling stations in Moldova, allegedly affecting 80,000 votes.
He also said: "We have no signs that the deceased voted. If we have these signs, we will hold a press conference."
Simion also mentioned a message from Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov on Sunday to Romanian users of his platform, which allegedly "Western European government" accompanied by French emojis, demanded that his platform "silence to Romania in Romania, before the election replay.
"I'm ready to prove whether this helps Romanian democracy," Durov said in an article on X on Tuesday.