It wasn’t immediately clear what kind of information had become available since Monday, when President Klaus Iohannis’ office said he hadn’t received any intelligence about potential foreign election interference.
The Supreme Council — chaired by Iohannis, the outgoing president — includes the prime minister, the defense minister and the leaders of the intelligence services.
Iohannis called a meeting Wednesday following stunning results in the first round of the presidential election, which saw little-known independent ultranationalist Călin Georgescu win, edging out Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, who didn’t make it to the Dec. 8 runoff.
The Supreme Council also called out the video-sharing platform TikTok, which it said gave preferential treatment to one candidate.
While the Supreme Council didn’t name Georgescu, its statement clearly referred to him. TikTok didn’t identify Georgescu as a political candidate and didn’t mark his content with a specific election code, as required by Romanian law, the Supreme Council said.
While the other candidates were marked as such and their videos filtered, the same didn’t happen for Georgescu, which significantly increased his visibility, it said.
