The Vice-President of the European Parliament, Victor Negrescu, has announced that a report has arrived on the table of the European Union’s legislative body confirming that Russia interfered in the Romanian presidential elections organized last year, the result of which was annulled by a decision of the Constitutional Court, guardian of the supreme law.

”This report on the presidential elections in Romania reaches the European Parliament and confirms that there was this interference, this meddling coming, as the report shows, from the Russian Federation. We will discuss this report, we will see the conclusions presented by the French authorities and we will see what needs to be done”, said the MEP.

Victor Negrescu assessed the debate on this report as an ”opportunity” to put pressure on the European Commission to present quickly ”its own report and the results of its analysis of the influence of social networks and the way in which these social networks have been influenced by interference”.

The MEP also said that the discussions in the European Parliament on the document drawn up by the French authorities are ”an invitation to the Romanian authorities to move faster”.

The Vice-President of the European Parliament expressed the wish that the competent institutions in our country explain to the population what happened.

”These things will also allow us to be more credible in our relations with our external partners and to show that what happened in Romania was something unique, something that could not have been anticipated before and that there were indeed these problems and that, yes, the annulment of the elections was motivated by some clear, concrete things. Romania needs something like this, and Romania’s role externally depends on how we manage to present this data in the coming period”, concluded the Vice-President of the European Parliament.

France’s General Secretariat of Defense and National Security published in early February a report by the Service for Surveillance and Protection against Foreign Digital Interference revealing that the November 2024 presidential election was the target of ”widespread manipulation”.

The document confirmed the conclusion reached by Romania’s Constitutional Court, which was forced to take the unprecedented step of annulling the entire presidential election process on December 6, finding that it was flawed.

Romanians go to the polls in May to elect their president in an election that will decide the country’s future.

The competent Romanian authorities have given assurances that ”they are committed to organizing free and fair elections, giving citizens the power to decide and guaranteeing the freedom to vote”.