led the first round, following allegations of

Simion capitalized on the furor over the annulment of that election and, after coming fourth in last year’s canceled race, allied with Georgescu, who wasin the election redo. In the first-round vote on May 4 in the rerun, Simion won a landslide

to enter the runoff.During the campaign, Simion portrayed his movement as championing conservative values like patriotism, sovereignty and the family, and styled himself as the Romanian analogue to U.S. President Donald Trump.He said Tuesday he will ask the court to cancel the May rerun on the same grounds as the court’s decision last year.

Hours after voting opened on Friday for Romanians abroad, Simion accused the Moldovan government of election fraud, which both Moldovan and Romanian authorities rejected.In comment to The Associated Press on Sunday, he reiterated claims that people were being illegally transported to voting stations in Moldova, allegedly affecting 80,000 votes.

He also said that “we don’t have indications that dead people voted. If we will have these indications, we’ll have a press conference.”

Simion also referenced a message sent Sunday by Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov to Romanian users of his platform, which alleged “a Western European government,” accompanied by a baguette emoji, asked his platform “to silence conservative voices” from Romania ahead of the election rerun.“Es una elección simbólica que al final del día no termina teniendo consecuencias de hecho, pero posiblemente es un elemento que se suma a los argumentos que el gobierno guyanés utilizará contra el gobierno venezolano y que se suma a las consideraciones que la Corte Internacional de Justicia (CIJ) hará sobre ese caso”, señaló Alarcón.

A solicitud de Guyana,El gobierno venezolano no reconoce la jurisdicción de la Corte en la larga disputa sobre el territorio del Esequibo y siguió adelante con los comicios.

Luego de años de mediaciones sin resultado, Guyana apeló a la CIJ en 2018, donde pidió a los jueces que sentencien que la decisión fronteriza de 1899 es válida y vinculante.El gobierno de Maduro insiste en la postura histórica de Venezuela de resolver el litigio mediante negociaciones en el marco de un acuerdo suscrito con Reino Unido el 17 de febrero de 1966, justo antes de la independencia de Guyana.