[tsimionescu]

> I still do not understand how it can be illegal for them to do this, if they do have the prerogative to cancel an election result.

It is precisely because of how that power works that what they did yesterday is illegal, in my opinion.

The Court is not basing its decision on whether to validate or invalidate an election result on the Constitution directly, in regular elections. The constitution is too broad and vague for this kind of power. Instead, based on the constition, specific laws that govern how elections are run and at what parts of the process the Court is involved in them were elaborated, and those laws were validated by the Court itself. Specifically, this law is 370/2004 [0].

If the Court can just convene itself by fiat, analyze any evidence it wants, and decide what effect that can have on the election, then why did we need a specific law with specific articles on how election results are validated in the first place?

[0] https://www.roaep.ro/legislatie/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/L...