{"id":4044,"date":"2025-03-07T08:01:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T08:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=4044"},"modified":"2025-03-07T08:01:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T08:01:34","slug":"elon-musk-questions-echrs-role-after-decision-in-romanian-calin-georgescus-appeal-to-election-annulment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=4044","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk questions ECHR\u2019s role after decision in Romanian C\u0103lin Georgescu\u2019s appeal to election annulment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire Elon Musk has questioned the role of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/echr-rejects-georgescu-challenge-election-annulment-march-2025\" target=\"_blank\">the court declared as inadmissible the case brought by\u00a0C\u0103lin Georgescu<\/a>, a former ultranationalist presidential candidate, regarding\u00a0the annulment of Romania&#8217;s 2024 presidential election.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reacting on X, Musk shared a post from conservative influencer Mario Nawfal and added: &#8220;What is this court and how can they annul elections?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, the ECHR did not annul the elections in Romania. The court ruled Georgescu&#8217;s complaint inadmissible, without interfering in the electoral process.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What is this court and how can they annul elections? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6SUp6gOGmB\">https:\/\/t.co\/6SUp6gOGmB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1897643947654099325?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The former presidential candidate challenged the Romanian Constitutional Court&#8217;s decision to cancel the 2024 election process to the ECHR, arguing that the annulment violated his right to free elections under Article 3 of Protocol No. 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights. He also claimed that the decision had been unlawful, disproportionate, and politically motivated, among others. The ECHR rejected all his claims.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time Elon Musk has shared incorrect information about the elections in Romania or about C\u0103lin Georgescu.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In February, the billionaire also reacted on social media after Georgescu was brought to the Prosecutor General&#8217;s Office for questioning. Sharing\u00a0a post on X, he said, &#8220;They just arrested the person who won the most votes in the Romanian presidential election. This is messed up.&#8221; In reality, after the hearings, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/calin-georgescu-questioned-investigation-romania-feb-2025\" target=\"_blank\">Georgescu was placed under judicial supervision<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Before that, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/elon-musk-jd-vance-romania-canceled-elections-february-2025\" target=\"_blank\">Musk took aim at Marian Enache<\/a>, the president of Romania&#8217;s Constitutional Court (CCR), who played a key role in the election annulment. &#8220;This guy is a tyrant, not a judge,&#8221; Musk wrote, sharing a post from internet personality Mario Nawfal.<\/p>\n<p>irina.marica@romania-insider.com<\/p>\n<p>(Photo source:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/friends2100_info\">Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Legrand<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/stock-photos\">Dreamstime.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire Elon Musk has questioned the role of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) after the court declared as inadmissible the case brought by\u00a0C\u0103lin Georgescu, a former ultranationalist presidential candidate, regarding\u00a0the annulment of Romania&#8217;s 2024 presidential election.\u00a0 Reacting on X, Musk shared a post from conservative influencer Mario Nawfal and added: &#8220;What is this [&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-4044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4044","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=4044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}