Notices by Giorgio Comai (giocomai@mastodon.social)

Having read in full the opinion of the Venice Commission on the annulment of elections, with reference to the recent decision of the Constitutional Court in Romania... lots to process, but I can't stop thinking to the reference in the first footnote, at when Austria in 2016 not only held a repeat second round of the presidential vote, but.... delayed by months the repeat vote because of "faulty envelope glue" (!!!) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37336947

This, but it's really about domain-specific skills

"Georgia’s two parallel realities:
No way of telling how the standoff ends."
https://eurasianet.org/georgias-two-parallel-realities

@catileptic Note, that I do not dismiss necessarily the issue of external interference, even if I don't think the "external" dimension must be there to have good reasons to put into question the elections.

But if authorities seek support for this most extraordinary of measures - cancelling elections - they *must* really be very transparent about what they know, and in how they communicate about this.

Which is why I hate it that they strongly implied something they knew not to be true.

Big news for anyone who's been following the whole debacle of the Romanian presidential elections: https://snoop.ro/anaf-a-descoperit-ca-pnl-a-platit-o-campanie-care-l-a-promovat-masiv-pe-calin-georgescu-pe-tiktok/

The TikTok campaign that allegedly determined Georgescu's popularity was sponsored by the liberal party (PNL), and implemented by Romanian communication companies.

Many questions remain, but what I find enraging is how we've been fed lies: so many questions raised by those CSAT documents, and at least PNL (and surely president and authorities)... they all knew. #Romania 🇷🇴