What is happening in Romania is a caricature of democracy, which even the American public recognizes, said the spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Maria Zakharova, quoted by TASS, BTA reported.
"Even the Americans, realizing all their responsibility - not theirs personally, but that of their regimes - for what is happening in Romania, which is under the umbrella of North Atlantic influence, even they are laughing out loud, because the country has been turned into... I don't even know what," Zakharova told Sputnik radio.
"This is just a caricature of democracy," the spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry added.
Zakharova's statement comes after the Constitutional Court of Romania unanimously rejected yesterday an appeal by Calin Georgescu and upheld the decision of the Central Election Bureau to disqualify him from the presidential elections on May 4. Yesterday morning, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists in Moscow that the decision of the Romanian authorities to disqualify Calin Georgescu from the presidential elections delegitimizes the electoral process.
"Naturally, against this background, if we call things by their right names, any elections held without him (Georgescu) will be illegitimate", Peskov said.
In response, the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated last night that "an aggressor state cannot give lessons in democracy". "Russia has not had free elections for almost 20 years. An aggressor state cannot give lessons in democracy", the position of the Romanian Foreign Ministry is emphasized.