Romanian court defers decision on annulling presidential vote

Court has ordered recount of vote won by far-right candidate and will decide whether it needs to be rerun

Romania's constitutional court has deferred a decision on whether to annul the first-round vote in the country's presidential election until Monday, a day after parliamentary elections in which far-right parties are forecast to post major gains.

The court, which had already ordered a recount, considered for two hours on Friday a request to annul the 24 November vote, which was won by Clin Georgescu, a far-right, Moscow-friendly independent who had previously been polling at barely 5%.