Presidential candidate George Simion has announced plans to ask the Constitutional Court to annul the May 18 presidential election, in which he was defeated by pro-EU candidate Nicusor Dan. 

Earlier on the same day, his Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) said it would not partake in the consultations initiated by president-elect Dan, whom AUR refuses to accept as a legitimate president. No particular grounds for not accepting the outcome of the presidential elections was provided.

After initially admitting defeat in the second ballot of the elections immediately after the release of the preliminary results, Simion announced on May 20 in a video message sent on Facebook that he would ask the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) to annul the presidential elections. 

The AUR leader accused the governments of Moldova and France of involvement in the Romanian elections and demanded the hearing of the Telegram founder. Russian billionaire Pavel Durov announced that he is willing to come and testify.

"We will act through legal channels both domestically and internationally. For the reasons mentioned in the CCR decision of December 2024, I, as an electoral competitor, will write to the CCR and request the annulment of the elections," said Simion in his message.

Durov announced on X on the evening of May 20 that he is ready to come and testify. "I am ready to come and testify if it helps Romanian democracy," Durov wrote, sharing a post by Simion.

The Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) announced the official results of the second round of the presidential elections on May 20. Dan took 6,168,642 valid votes, while his opponent Simion took 5,339,053 votes.