Romanian court rejects hard-right candidate’s challenge to election result

Presidential candidate George Simion waits to address members of the business community at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania, days ahead of the second round of the presidential election redo in Bucharest, Romania (Vadim Ghirda/AP)

A top Romanian court has rejected as unfounded a request to annul the country’s presidential election by the hard-right candidate who decisively lost the race to his pro-European Union opponent.

After deliberations on Thursday, Romania’s Constitutional Court unanimously rejected the annulment request, filed on Tuesday by George Simion.