Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s selection to go the U.S. well being division, will likely be in Romania subsequent week to fulfill Calin Georgescu, the shock far-right winner within the first spherical of a presidential election, a Romanian tv station stated.
Georgescu completed first in final Sunday’s vote, and secured a spot in a run-off scheduled for Dec. 8, in a win that would upend politics in Romania and undermine its pro-Western stance.
Nevertheless, the election outcome has been challenged at Romania’s prime court docket, which ordered a recount of all of the votes forged final Sunday. The court docket will determine on Monday whether or not to annul the primary spherical. Romania additionally holds a parliamentary election on Sunday.
Kennedy will likely be in Bucharest subsequent week to launch his ebook on the coronavirus pandemic, with a preface written by Georgescu, non-public tv station Realitatea stated in an announcement. Kennedy is an environmentalist who has unfold misinformation about vaccines.
“Realitatea is a media accomplice of the year-end assembly between the long run Well being Secretary in Donald Trump’s authorities and the shock winner of the presidential vote,” Realitatea stated in an announcement. It added the televised dialogue will happen on Dec. 5.
A spokesperson for Kennedy, and representatives of Republican Trump’s transition group, didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Georgescu instructed Realitatea earlier this week that Kennedy would possibly come to Bucharest.
On Saturday, his communications group neither denied nor confirmed the assembly.
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