AEP confirms the visit of the Americans without stating who they were or which institutions they represented. It does not explain why Americans would be interested in “good electoral practices” now, when Romania has already exhausted all its elections for the coming years; logically, such an interest should have been expressed beforehand.
With a touch of humor, AEP goes on to speak about the purpose of such contacts: to “promote Romania’s experience in organizing and conducting free and fair elections.”
Romania has completely destroyed, over the past year, the very notion of free and fair elections. It illegally and unconstitutionally merged the European Parliament elections with the local elections by bringing the locals forward; it brought forward the presidential elections by several months without any official explanation (!!!), then moved them back again; it illegally removed candidates from the race; it refused to merge the first round of the presidential elections with the parliamentary elections—a perfectly legal and constitutional option—choosing instead to string together three rounds of voting on three consecutive Sundays; then it canceled the presidential elections altogether while the second round was already underway and organized new elections this year—but without the frontrunner, who was also eliminated.
Another shocking first was USR’s decision, during the campaign, to abandon its own candidate—who was also the party’s president!!—and back another one.
Let us also recall how the president of AEP, Toni Greblă, was ousted from office ahead of the presidential elections over alleged past irregularities dating back before last year’s elections.
What has happened in Romania has been discussed more by the global press, political scientists, and politicians than the December 1989 revolution.
The annulment of the elections was criticized by senior U.S. officials; Romania was brutally removed from the Visa Waiver program; relations with the U.S. are completely frozen despite the wet dreams of the Nicușor-Bolojan regime.
The U.S. State Department’s 2024 annual report no longer includes—for the first time—the customary phrase “the elections were free and fair,” as featured in every previous election-year report. Instead, it contains extensive coverage of the annulment and mentions the controversies and accusations.
And yet, AEP has the audacity to speak of how the Americans might be interested in “learning from our experience” in elections.
Beyond that, as I said, there seem to be some developments regarding the annulled elections.
On Monday, precisely when Trump, Vance, and Rubio were holding their major meeting with the big European delegation at the White House, Romania’s ambassador to Washington was urgently summoned for talks with Allison Hooker, the U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. The meeting was scheduled rather oddly on Sunday, according to the State Department’s website announcement.
Two other peculiarities: Muraru, who never misses a chance to boast on his own account and that of the Romanian embassy about any meeting with even the most minor U.S. official, this time remained completely silent. To be clear, Hooker’s position is extremely senior—the fourth highest in the State Department hierarchy—she is the successor of the legendary Victoria Nuland, architect of Ukraine’s 2004 Maidan that annulled the mandate of a democratically elected president, Viktor Yanukovych, and who, generally in Democratic administrations, has carried out a slew of dirty operations in this region of Europe. For Muraru to “forget” to mention a meeting with the highest-ranking figure he has accessed in the current administration is unthinkable. He acknowledged the meeting only three days later, after our press heavily reported on it.
Two other peculiarities: Muraru, who never misses a chance to boast on his own account and that of the Romanian embassy about any meeting with even the most minor U.S. official, this time remained completely silent. To be clear, Hooker’s position is extremely senior—the fourth highest in the State Department hierarchy—she is the successor of the legendary Victoria Nuland, architect of Ukraine’s 2004 Maidan that annulled the mandate of a democratically elected president, Viktor Yanukovych, and who, generally in Democratic administrations, has carried out a slew of dirty operations in this region of Europe. For Muraru to “forget” to mention a meeting with the highest-ranking figure he has accessed in the current administration is unthinkable. He acknowledged the meeting only three days later, after our press heavily reported on it.
The second peculiarity is that Hooker herself did not post about the meeting on her X account, where she dutifully reports every encounter with any foreign official, even from highly irrelevant states. Another sign that Romania is being punished through official disregard?
Another explosive development of recent days was the highly unusual public appearance of one of the judges who annulled the elections, Iulia Scîntei, with statements that seemed to indicate fear and an attempt to shift the responsibility for annulling the elections onto other institutions such as the intelligence services and the CSAT.
There was also the statement by Foreign Minister Oana Țoiu, acknowledging that the annulment of the elections led to Romania’s removal from the Visa Waiver program.
We also recall that recently, Senator Marco Rubio sent a circular to all U.S. embassies restricting American diplomats from commenting on elections in other countries. According to an internal State Department document dated July 17, 2025, Rubio ordered diplomats to avoid making statements about the fairness or integrity of foreign elections, permitting only short congratulatory messages to winners, focused on shared foreign policy interests, and only with high-level approval.
This directive marks a shift from the previous U.S. practice of actively promoting democracy, sparking controversy and speculation about domestic political motives, including the influence of the Trump administration.
This directive marks a shift from the previous U.S. practice of actively promoting democracy, sparking controversy and speculation about domestic political motives, including the influence of the Trump administration.
The Americans’ visit to the AEP essentially contradicts Rubio’s directive. But it makes sense if it forms part of an investigation into the annulled elections—an investigation that might reveal the former Democratic administration’s involvement in our elections, which would perfectly serve Trump’s agenda.
The most serious question is this: if this is the case, doesn’t the U.S. investigation open the door to the most terrifying scenario—that of the Trump administration refusing to recognize the elections, which, to this day, has not issued any official reaction to the results of May’s presidential elections, in stark breach of diplomatic norms? Could Nicușor Dan be forced to resign as a result of such a scandal? At this point, it seems we should be ready for anything.
