The report from the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives on the elections in Romania is "erroneous" and "partisan", Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen told a Monday's press conference in Bucharest.
"The report is an ideological, partisan document that no one is paying any attention to in the defense establishment in the United States or in the public. We think it is erroneous, not based in fact and we do not pay any attention to it, so the people of Romania should ignore it, because it is not going anywhere, I can guarantee that. As you know, we have a Congress that has two Houses and two parties that are represented. The majority party in the House has decided to take a very partisan approach to all kinds of issues, and this is one of them", she stated.
According to the senator, Romania was "one of the strongest, most loyal and most important allies of the United States".
She stated that she met on Monday with President Nicusor Dan and the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defense.
"Governments may change, leaders may change, but the relationship that exists between the people of Romania and the people of the United States will continue. And we saw that again today. So, we are pleased. Because of this partnership, NATO is stronger, Romania is stronger and the United States is stronger, and this is a very important message to send to our adversaries, particularly Vladimir Putin, in Russia", said Jeanne Shaheen.
The European Commission interferes "regularly" in the national elections of the member states of the European Union, including Romania, the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives wrote in a report posted earlier this month on its website.
According to the report, since the entry into force of the Digital Services Act (DSA) in 2023, the European Commission has been pressuring platforms to censor content ahead of national elections in Slovakia, the Netherlands, France, the Republic of Moldova, Romania and Ireland, as well as ahead of the European elections in June 2024.
Non-public documents submitted to the House of Representatives' Legal Affairs Committee show that this pressure was regularly exerted to disadvantage conservative or populist political parties in EU member states, the report says.
According to it, the ''most aggressive'' censorship measures were adopted during the 2024 Romanian presidential election, when the Constitutional Court annulled the results of the first round, won by the little-known independent populist candidate Calin Georgescu. The decision was made after Romanian intelligence services claimed that Russia had secretly supported Georgescu through a coordinated campaign on TikTok.
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