Romanians protest cancellation of presidential race

Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through Romania’s capital, Bucharest, on Sunday to protest the Constitutional Court’s decision last month to order that the presidential election be re-run.

They demanded that the vote take place and that outgoing centrist President Klaus Iohannis resign immediately.

“We demand a return to democracy through the resumption of elections, starting with the second round,” George Simion of the right-wing Alliance for the Unity of Romanians (AUR),…