A special edition of Romanian Dispatch dedicated to the presidential elections (plural!). On Friday the Constitutional Court canceled the first round of the presidential elections, after revelations earlier in the week about potential meddling by a “state actor”. This weekend prosecutors conducted raids linked to a man suspected of illegally financing Călin Georgescu’s presidential run. Also sad news for football fans: former Steaua Bucharest’s goalie Helmuth Duckadam, the “Hero of Sevilla”, died aged 65.

This and much more in this week’s Romanian Dispatch. If you like it, why not pass it on? New readers can subscribe here.

Romanian Dispatch #54 (December 10, 2024)