<p>A cancelled election, a  cancelled candidate and a divided country – is Romania’s democracy  under threat?
Last December the country’s Constitutional Court cancelled the presidential election two days before the final vote, citing outside interference, with the nationalist pro-Putin candidate, Calin Georgescu, riding high in the polls.  TikTok sensation and portraying himself as an outsider, Georgescu’s anti-EU and anti-NATO message  resonated with an unhappy electorate. His sudden success was unprecedented, as was the cancelation of a European democratic election.
The political establishment claim that cyberwarfare and Russian interference gave them no choice. Georgescu has now been eliminated from May’s Presidential re-run.
Historian Tessa Dunlop asks how this happened, why it matters and what next for this strategically important country on the eastern edge of the EU and NATO?</p><p>Presenter: Dr. Tessa Dunlop
Producer: John Murphy
Studio Mix: James Beard
Production co-ordinator: Gemma Ashman
Series Editor: Penny Murphy</p>

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