The leaders of the United Right Alliance, speaking on Sunday at a joint press conference, sounded alarm on a "massive electoral fraud", pointing the finger at "thousands of irregularities" in the voting process.
Chairman of the Save Romania Union (USR) Catalin Drula declared that there are "clear and increasingly more indications" of the PSD and PNL attempting a "huge fraud" in these elections. He warned the perpetrators that such acts are punishable by imprisonment.
"I also warn [PSD Chairman] Marcel Ciolacu and [PNL leader] Nicolae Ciuca that they are directly responsible for any attempt to steal and distort the will of the Romanians. A democratic state, a European NATO member state cannot tolerate voting theft. We are asking our colleagues in the polling stations, who defend the Romanians' vote, to be vigilant and report any vote-rigging attempts. There is already an app in place to report these vote interference cases, and we have already received thousands of them since last night. Our message to the Romanians is the following: turn out in massive numbers to the polls. For every pre-stamped ballot they put in the ballot box, we have to turn out in the hundreds," said the USR leader.
In his turn, Chairman of the People's Movement Party (PMP) Eugen Tomac mentioned that the existence of pre-stamped ballots was confirmed at three polling stations in Bucharest - 190, 311 and 329 - and that the USR has filed criminal complaints for these crimes.
The PMP leader also gave the example of Apahida in Cluj County, where a citizen filed 32 requests for a mobile ballot box for people born around 1930, but when asked by the representative of the United Right Alliance about those elderly residents, "he withdrew the documents and left."
In another fraud attempt at a polling station in Ciorogarla, Ilfov County, 52 Asian citizens who do not even have the right to vote in the EP elections, were entered on the complementary list for MEPs.
The PMP Chairman cited other examples of voters being handed pre-stamped ballot papers, adding that complaints are currently "flowing in" from the entire country, which is indicative of "thousands of irregularities" and of a massive illegal interference with the elections.
"The Romanian citizens must know that we are left to our own devices. The state institutions are hijacked, anesthetized. They are slow to respond. Therefore, we ask everyone to go out to vote, and tonight we should defend every honest vote in this country," said Eugen Tomac.
Force of the Right leader Ludovic Orban too accused the "worrying" frequency of situations such as: the presence of mayors or "their sidekicks" around the polling stations "with the intention to persuade" people to vote for the current administrations, attempts to get the delegates at the polling stations to sign the minutes in blank, or the striking of deals between voters and mayors on photographing the ballot papers.
He also cautioned that some Special Telecommunications Service operators ask voters if they also cast their ballot in the European Parliament elections, which "is incorrect, as it actually translates into a kind of exhortation to people not to vote in the EP ballot," Orban argued.
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