The nationalist surprise winner of the first round of the Romanian presidential election, Călin Georgescu, has been rejected by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) with his application for an injunction against the annulment of the Romanian presidential election. However, he scored points with another European institution. In an urgent report, the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe set out conditions „on the basis of which a constitutional court can declare elections invalid“. According to this, the annulment of elections is „only permissible in exceptional circumstances (in accordance with the ultima ratio principle)“.