The decision to cancel the presidential election in December.
The cancellation was interpreted as a statement that Romania does not share American values.
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"The point I'm trying to make to our European friends is that friendship is based on shared values," Vance said at the opening of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
You don't have shared values if you cancel elections because you're not pleased with the outcome, and that happened in Romania. If you're so fearful of your own citizens that you silence them and repress their voices.
Let's adopt common values. Let's safeguard democracy. Let's promote free expression, not only in the United States, but throughout the Western world. That is the course to robust alliances in Europe.
Last week, he used it as an example of what he described as undemocratic censorship of free speech and political opponents by European governments.
Additionally, on Thursday, Musk, who is leading the Trump administration's new Department of Government Efficiency, shared a post on social media stating that the Romanian top court chief judge, Marian Enache, had rejected US pressure regarding whether Georgescu would be permitted to participate in the May election rematch.
Enache on Wednesday denounced the threats he said Georgescu made, warning that if he is elected, judges of the Constitutional Court will be put on trial for high treason.
"This individual is an autocrat, not a jurist," Musk wrote.
The court was unavailable for immediate comment.
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