The message of the US Embassy in Romania before the presidential elections. Quote from JD Vance, who criticized Dur Bucharest Hardly
The message posted on Tuesday on the Facebook page of the US Embassy in Bucharest accompanies a quote from the US Vice -President, who has twice criticized the organization of elections in Romania: “Democracy is based on the sacred principle that the voice of people counts.”
The US Embassy in Bucharest posted on the social networks on Tuesday a message on electoral issues, a few days before the first round of the presidential elections in Romania.
“A democratic mandate cannot be obtained by censoring the opponents or ignoring the electorate, especially when there are essential questions such as who has the right to be part of our society,” says posting from the Embassy Facebook account, which does not mention Romania.
The message accompanies an image with a quote from JD Vance Vice President: “Democracy is based on the sacred principle that the voice of people counts.”
JD Vance criticized Dur Romania in Munich
JD Vance criticized Romania on the occasion of the speech held at the Munich Security Conference, on February 14, when he said that our country “directly canceled the results of the presidential elections based on the weak suspicions of an information agency and the enormous pressure from the continental neighbors.”
“For years, we are told that everything we finance and support is in the name of our common democratic values, everything, from our policy towards Ukraine to digital censorship, is presented as a defense of democracy. But when we see European courts canceling elections and senior officials who threaten to cancel others,” Vice President Vance at that time.
The US Vice -President says that the elections in Romania have been canceled “based on the weak suspicions of an information agency and at the huge pressure from its continental neighbors”
The speech in Munich marked a paradigm change in the optics of the US government compared to the situation in Romania, given that the former US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, the man who led the American diplomacy during the Biden administration, declared at a December 5 Summit that the Romanian authorities have revealed “a Russian – well -finished effort”.
New Washington critics
Vance launched new criticisms of the Romanian authorities in February, in the Conference of American Conservatives CPAC, and resumed reproaches to Europeans, specifically speaking about Germany and Romania.
The American official emphasized the importance of “common values” in the vision of the Trump administration and reproached the Romanian authorities, again, the decision to cancel last year's presidential elections.
“I think, I know that President Trump does, the friendship is based on common values. You have no common values if you send people to prison because I say we should close the border. You have no common values if you cancel the elections because you do not like the result. And that happened in Romania.
Pressures and criticism for Romania
Also in February, the Bloomberg News Agency wrote that the administration of President Donald Trump is pressuring the Romanian authorities to allow Călin Georgescu to run for the presidential elections.
According to Bloomberg, during private meetings with Romanian counterparts, American officials focused almost exclusively on the vote, warning the Romanian officials not to block Georgescu's candidacy.
Billionaire Elon Musk, a close relative of Trump, has repeatedly done in the Romanian elections, signaling the interest of the administration for the situation in our country.
“Romania deserves its own sovereignty!”, Wrote Elon Musk, in a message that distributed a post by Călin Georgescu in which he announced that he would prohibit the “Soros network”.
Elon Musk actually made several posts on Romania. He reposted on his X account an interview with MEP Georgiana Teodorescu for Mario Nawfal, a prominent supporter of Maga in the United States.
Also, Elon Musk asked in an X post, “how can a judge cancel the elections and not be considered a dictator.”
The White House “remains deeply disturbed” by the annulment of elections in Romania and “works” so that the situation does not repeat itself
Bloomberg wrote the other days that, since US Vice -President JD Vance criticized Romania, in February, to cancel the presidential elections, the officials from Bucharest have tried to regain the White House on their side.
In order to repair the relationship, Romanian officials have tried to open several communication channels with an administration that became a well -difficult to contact for many allies, they have supported familiar sources with the subject for Bloomberg.
Premiere statements: the White House “remains deeply disturbed” by the annulment of elections in Romania and “works” so that the situation does not repeat itself
But the situation inside the American administration “remains unpredictable”, notes Bloomberg, who writes that neither Trump nor his vice president have made any comment on the elections in Romania in recent weeks.
However, Bloomberg cites the spokesman of the National Security Council, Brian Hughes, who says that the American administration “continues to analyze the situation” and “remains deeply disturbed” by the events that determined the Constitutional Court to cancel the first tour of the November presidential vote.
“We will work to ensure that they (no-the cancellation of the elections) are not repeated,” Hughes said in an answer to questions, notes Bloomberg.
