Romania’s Constitutional Court Validates Basescu As President

Romania’s Constitutional Court Monday validated Traian Basescu for a second term as the country’s president, as he got the largest number of votes in the presidential election runoff held on December 6.

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The Constitutional Court said in a news conference the decision validating Basescu as Romania's president is final and will be published in the Official Journal.

Romania's Constitutional Court rejected Monday the request of the Social Democratic Party to annul the presidential election outcome.

Romania's Constitutional Court Friday ordered a recount of the nearly 140,000 null votes in the election following the Social Democratic Party's claim that the poll was tainted by fraud, after their candidate Mircea Geoana lost the vote to President Traian Basescu at a difference of some 70,000 ballots.

The recount of all voided ballots in Romania's presidential election held last Sunday found 2,247 valid ballots, of which 1,260 for Basescu and 987 for social democrat Geoana, Romania's Central Electoral Bureau said Monday.

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