site.btaCandidate Elena Lasconi Believes That "Justice Will Be Served Today"

Elena Lasconi, one of the two female presidential candidates in Romania, said after casting her vote on Sunday: "I vote with the belief that justice will finally be served today." As in all most of her campaign events, she was wearing white, as witnessed by this correspondent.

The 52-year-old former journalist said: "I voted with the thought and belief that those in the system will no longer make plans for us, with the thought and belief that Romanians finally have the opportunity to reset the system, that will be no children going to bed hungry in this country there, with the belief that no woman who dares to speak out will ever again be labelled as hysterical, that good-hearted people will see that thieves and corrupt individuals will go to prison and pay for everything they have stolen from the Romanians." 

Lasconi is the leader of the opposition reformist party Union for the Salvation of Romania (USR) and mayor of Campulung (Southern Romania) since 2020. She reached the second round of last year's annulled presidential elections, where she would have faced far-right nationalist Calin Georgescu. According to her, the Constitutional Court "trampled democracy" because it should not have annulled the vote, regardless of the results.

Lasconi filed her bid in the re-run of the elections, despite some of her party members urging her to withdraw in favour of Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan.