Romanian intelligence chiefs should be fired for creating an “ambiguous” report used by judges to annul the country’s general election results, a leading candidate has said.
Speaking exclusively to The Telegraph, Elena Lasconi took aim at “intelligence agencies, police, prosecutors, and even the internal revenue service” for their roles in a shambolic election process which ended in its cancellation.
The first-round result last month caused a political earthquake in the former communist country.
Polls had suggested that the incumbent centre-Left party led by Marcel Ciolacu, the prime minister, would easily win. However, Calin Georgescu, a pro-Russian critic of Nato, took 23 per cent of the vote share and surged into the lead.
