“Democracy Dies in Darkness” according to the Washington Post, but when democracy is annulled in broad daylight Politico thinks it is no big deal as long as it is the election of a candidate they oppose that is being cancelled.
Such is the attitude of the European edition of Politico towards the Romanian presidential election that was cancelled by that country’s Constitutional Court due to what they claimed was interference by Russia on social media.
On Wednesday, Politico’s Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing gleefully reported in a six-paragraph brief that “Romanian appeals court upholds scrubbing fishy presidential election.”
A Romanian appeals court on Tuesday rejected far-right candidate Călin Georgescu’s challenge of a decision by the Constitutional Court to annul the country’s Nov. 24 presidential election.
The Constitutional Court had scrapped the…
