annulment

Before last year's annulment, the pro-Russian politician told the BBC he would end all support for Ukraine if he was elected.

At the time, he cited the issue of vote-buying, as well as the need to protect the country’s judiciary as reasons for the annulment.

A Melbourne judge granted the annulment after accepting the woman was tricked into getting married, in a judgment published on Thursday.

Sindle denied that to The Times, instead claiming she felt pressured into an annulment by her parents and police.

On what should have been election day, Mr Georgescu appeared outside a shuttered polling station to denounce the annulment of the vote as "an abuse and a crime".