by Robert Semonsen
The Romanian Constitutional Court’s unprecedented decision to annul last year’s first-round presidential election—and, months later, to bar frontrunner Călin Georgescu, who had been polling at 45% of the vote—has sparked a political firestorm both at home and abroad, with many denouncing it as a coup d’état.
Now, three of the court’s nine judges are under scrutiny for their connections to powerful globalist networks. Two of the judges have ties to billionaire George Soros, while a third has links to US President Joe Biden.
At the heart of the controversy—the brazenly anti-democratic decision to ban the only candidate critical of US foreign intervention, NATO, and the EU—is Judge Elena Tănăsescu, who sat on the board of the Institute of Public Policy in Bucharest from 2005 to 2019.
The organization has received significant funding from the CEE Fund, a branch of Soros’ vast foundation network.