Romanian conservatives are pushing their nation’s highest court to overturn yet another presidential election due to foreign tampering.

George Simion, the leader of the nation’s right-wing Alliance for the Unity of Romanians, is pressing the Constitutional Court to annul Budapest mayor Nicusor Dan’s election as president.

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“I officially ask Constitutional Court TO ANNUL [the May 2025] Romanian presidential elections,” Simion announced Tuesday. “For the very reasons December elections were annulled: EXTERNAL INTERFERENCES by state and non-state actors. This time proven with evidence!”

The court previously annulled the 2024 presidential election, citing claims that Russia bolstered the online profile and public opinion of independent right-wing candidate Călin Georgescu, who won the preliminary round.

Alliance for the Unity of Romanians is now demanding that the same standard be applied now, claiming evidence of outside influence exists.

Simion asserts that he possesses “irrefutable evidence” that the governments of France and Moldova participated in “an orchestrated effort to manipulate institutions, direct media narratives and ultimately impose a result that does not reflect the sovereign will of the Romanian people.”

A key piece of evidence that Simion seems to be banking on is the testimony of Pavel Durov, CEO and founder of the messaging app Telegram.

On the day of the election, Durov claimed on social media that a “Western European government” approached his company requesting that they “silence conservative voices in Romania ahead of … presidential elections.”

Later, he provided a more specific allegation: “This spring at the Salon des Batailles in the Hôtel de Crillon, Nicolas Lerner, head of French intelligence, asked me to ban conservative voices in Romania ahead of elections. I refused. We didn’t block protesters in Russia, Belarus, or Iran. We won’t start doing it in Europe.”

“Neither France, nor Moldova, nor anyone else has the right to interfere in the elections of another state,” Simion said. “To all Romanians: ask urgently the Constitutional Court to annul this farce. We will not give up and we will not betray! This is only the beginning of a great victory!”

Simion attended a meeting of the National Council for the Alliance for the Unity of Romanians on Wednesday in Tulcea.

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He posted a picture of the event and announced that the party will “remain loyal to” Georgescu.

Durov said Wednesday that he is “ready to come and testify if it helps Romanian democracy.”