{"id":2026,"date":"2024-10-09T07:07:05","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T07:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=2026"},"modified":"2024-10-09T07:07:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T07:07:05","slug":"ngos-protest-romanian-constitutional-courts-decision-to-invalidate-presidential-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=2026","title":{"rendered":"NGOs protest Romanian Constitutional Court&#8217;s decision to invalidate presidential candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several non-governmental organizations, including members of the &#8220;Citizen NGOs&#8221; Coalition, issued a joint statement protesting against the decision of the Constitutional Court to invalidate the presidential candidacy of far-right politician <strong>Diana Sosoaca<\/strong>, saying it calls into question the very essence of the democratic system in Romania.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a democratic country, the opposition must be defeated at the polls, not excluded from the competition by procedural means,&#8221; the NGOs argue, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertatea.ro\/stiri\/mai-multe-organizatii-neguvernamentale-acuza-scoaterea-dianei-sosoaca-din-cursa-prezidentiala-inacceptabila-intr-o-democratie-5040187\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Libertatea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The NGOs also emphasized that the candidate excluded by the Constitutional Court, Diana Sosoaca, is not the only candidate who publicly expressed, at least once, anti-democratic and anti-European political opinions.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/ccr-explains-decision-diana-sosoaca-presidential-race-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Constitutional Court invoked such positions<\/a> expressed by Sosoaca as grounds for invalidating her candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>However, the signatories emphasized that they do not support Diana Sosoaca&#8217;s public opinions. &#8220;On the contrary, we strongly condemn the statements of fascist origin made and the conspiracy theories that it promotes in the public space.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source: Inquam Photos\/George Calin)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several non-governmental organizations, including members of the &#8220;Citizen NGOs&#8221; Coalition, issued a joint statement protesting against the decision of the Constitutional Court to invalidate the presidential candidacy of far-right politician Diana Sosoaca, saying it calls into question the very essence of the democratic system in Romania. &#8220;In a democratic country, the opposition must be defeated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}