A few hours before the ballot boxes are closed election to Romania To highlight the new president, the founder of the Telegram indirectly accused France for trying to intervene in the elections, demanding the deletion of some “conservative” messages from that social media.
In a message published in Telegrama 40 -year -old businessman, a Russian naturalized Frenchman in 2021, Pavel Doufo, is accusing him of involvement in the Romanian elections “a Western European government”.
Putting an emoji Bagntas, he instructed users to guess which government it may be.
This government, according to Dourov, “approached the Telegram, asking us to silence the conservative voices in Romania before today’s presidential election.”
As he explained, refused to take any action As he does not want to limit the freedom of Romanian users, he will not block their politicians.
A Western European government (guess which ) approached Telegram asking us to silence conservative voices in Romania ahead of today’s presidential elections. I flatly refused. Telegram will not restrict the freedoms of Romanian users or block their political channels.
– Pavel Durov (@durov) May 18, 2025
The French Foreign Ministry, however, categorically denied its involvement.
In tweet, the French Foreign Minister denounced “completely unfounded claims”.
“France categorically rejects these allegations and calls on everyone to act responsibly and respect the Romanian Republic,” the Central Committee added.
“Recent charges against France are simply a move of anticipation against real threats of intervention that target Romania. France calls on all Romanian political actors to demonstrate responsibility and defend democracy, “French diplomacy adds.
Pavel Doufo, who is being investigated by the French authorities by August for a series of offenses related to organized crime, justice accuses him of not taking action against the spread of criminal messages in Telegram.
Signs of Russian mixing
The Romanian government in turn denounced a “widespread campaign of false information” on social media, especially in the Telegram, with the aim of “affecting the electoral process” and “once again bringing Russian intervention characteristics”.
This statement was published in X by the Foreign Ministry spokesman, shortly after the message of Telegram founder Pavel Doufo.
And all of this comes a few hours after The nationalist candidate for the Romanian presidential election, Jorman Simon, closed his social media, thus wanting to comment on censorship And the propaganda made through the country’s social media, with many reporting that they can affect the election result.
Exit Polls so far show clear Central candidate for the presidency of Romania and Mayor of Bucharest Nicusor Dan.
Donald Trump’s supporter, Donald Trump, declared himself a “new president of Romania”, counting on the votes of the big diaspora to win and denounce “fraud”.