Moscow hits back at Romania’s election ‘interference’ accusations
Moscow has rejected claims of "Russian interference" in Romania’s presidential election.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova criticized the contentious nature of the presidential election in Romania, suggesting to the country's officials that they should better get started on cleaning up their "mess", instead of blaming it on others.
She made the remarks after Romanian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Andrei Tarnea alleged that there were “hallmarks of Russian interference” in the Sunday election which saw Nicusor Dan elected as the country's new president.
Zakharova wrote in a social media post on Monday that, “You can’t interfere in something like that – only get entangled in it.”
“They shouldn’t try to drag others into their electoral mess. They should clean it up themselves,” she said.
Meanwhile, Dan, 55, the liberal pro-EU Bucharest Mayor, beat his right-wing pro-Russia rival George Simion, 38, in the rerun election.
Simion, a football hooligan in his youth, had slammed the EU's "absurd policies" and had pledged to cut aid to Kiev.
In the race between, Dan, the self-declared “pro-western" candidate, scored 53.6 percent of the votes against the "anti-western” Simion, who only scored 46.4 percent and lost the race, according to official figures.
Dan, a mathematician-turned-politician, has been Bucharest’s independent mayor since 2020. His victory is a sigh of relief for Brussels.
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