Who will decide that the court has acted outside its own mandate? They are the only authority on constitutional matters. If you're referring to "the people" - based on what I've seen there's no street protesting going on over this.

> And even if they have a good excuse, the optics are very bad and potentially fatal for whatever is left of the trust in Romanian institutions.

Completely agree.

I don’t know. Probably the posterity :)

Given political support (with the exception of Lasconi) for the annulment, I expect that nothing will happen in the near future.