The Court has declared inadmissible the application in the case of Călin Georgescu v. Romania.

The case concerned the annulment by the Constitutional Court of Romania of the presidential elections of 2024, for which the applicant was a candidate.

The Court held that in the light of the constitutional structure of Romania, there was no indication that the powers of the President of Romania are such as to make that office part of the “legislature” of the respondent State, within the meaning of Article 3 of Protocol No. 1 to the Convention, guaranteeing the right to free elections. Therefore, it rejected the complaint raised in that respect.

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