A recent publication finds strong evidence for a violation of the Cosmological principle of isotropy across the CMB sky. This analysis revealed three distinct patches in the maps with circularly-averaged sizes between 40 to 70 degrees in radius. These three areas distinguish large-scale deviations from the all-sky mean value of several distinguished cosmological parameters measured separately. In this article, we analyze these results with a previous solution proposed to explained dark energy consistent with general relativity. This solution allows retrieving all the qualitative and quantitative observations (3 areas with the same kind of deviations from all-sky mean values, with circular boundaries, with right size and position, consistent with the sign of deviation for the Hubble parameter H0 for each area).
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