« OSCE will monitor the presidential elections in Romania »

USR announced that the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) decided on Monday, in Copenhagen, to send an observation mission to the presidential elections of May 4 and 18, 2025, following the official request made by Iulian Lorincz, deputy USR by the Diaspora and the president of the Delegation of the Romanian Parliament to APS OSCE.

« Romania needs clear guarantees that the future president is chosen by a democratic process, free of foreign influences. The previous elections have been compromised by aggressive and well-coordinated propaganda, orchestrated from Russia. We cannot afford to repeat this dangerous scenario, » says Iulian Lorincz.

The decision of the APSCE APSCs comes against the background of the increasingly worrying signals regarding the mixture of the Russian Federation in the electoral process in Romania and in the context of the unprecedented decision to annul the previous presidential elections, says USR.

In the letter sent to the OSCE management, the USR deputy requested the development of an extended monitoring mission, with long -term international observers, as well as a solid online press monitoring component.

« The request has been accepted, and the OSCE will monitor the presidential election in Romania, with an emphasis on the correctness of the electoral process and to combat external interference. The decision is all the more important in the context in which the press has revealed that several Tiktok accounts that have supported it in the previous campaign on the pro-Rus candidate Călin Georgescu. The part of Vladimir Putin. Georgescu, but also gold, benefited from the trailer network, coordinated from outside the country, who posted millions of comments to manipulate the algorithm.

« It is very serious. I hope the General Prosecutor’s Office will extend the investigation on the Gold Party and the other isolationist parties. We must know who was behind this network. We are not only talking about political influence, but about a manipulation of the democratic process, » says USR deputy Iulian Lorincz.

Therefore, the USR deputy requested that the mission AP OSCE should focus not only on the day of the vote, but on the entire electoral process – from the decisions of the Central Electoral Bureau and to the Decisions of the Constitutional Court.

« Romania is facing a hybrid war. Online manipulation and undermining confidence in institutions are the invisible weapons of this war. We need international support to defend democracy, » adds Lorincz.

Also, in the letter addressed to the President of AP OSCE, Pia Kauma, and the Secretary General, Roberto Montella, the USR deputy requested a detailed evaluation of the legal framework and the institutional mechanisms involved in organizing the elections. The purpose is to identify concrete solutions for the electoral process to become more predictable, more transparent and more resistant in the face of external influences.