Romanian election: What the hell is going on?

Scrapping an election between two rounds of voting is a massive step to take, but Romania’s Constitutional Court decided it was essential to protect democracy from foreign attack.

The court’s move to annul the Romanian presidential election plunged the country into turmoil, and it’s not clear where the upheaval will end.

Here is POLITICO’s guide to the extraordinary crisis in democracy engulfing one of the EU and NATO’s most important Eastern European member countries.