Presidential election –
In Romania, the far -right candidate head of the first round
Five months after the cancellation of the first ballot, the extreme right arrived at the top in the first round of the Romanian presidential election.
Posted today at 10:29 p.m.
The head of the Aur party, George Simion, is credited with 30 to 33% of the vote.
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- The extreme right retains its dominant position during the new presidential election in Romania.
- George Simion from the AUR party obtains approximately 32% of the votes in the first round.
- This election occurs after the invalidation of the November ballot by the Constitutional Court.
The candidate has changed but the far right remains in the lead: five months after theShock cancellation of the first round of the presidential electionRomania confirmed in a new vote on Sunday its nationalist turn.
The leader of the Aur party, George Simion, is credited with 30 to 33% of the votes, according to two exit polls from the ballot box. It is followed by two pro-European candidates, who are at the elbow with a little more than 20% of the votes.
Few voice reserves
“Together we wrote a history page today,” the winner reacted in a video message broadcast at the siege of his party in front of supporters singing “outside the thieves, long live the patriots”.
He will however be “probably beaten in the second round” on May 18 because he has few voice reserves, commented for AFP the professor of political science Sergiu Miscoiu, predicting a tight race.
Eleven contenders in total broke out an essentially protocol but influence in foreign policy, in this EU member country of 19 million inhabitants who have become an essential pillar of NATO since the Russian invasion of neighboring Ukraine.
Influence de Tiktok
The surprise victory in November of Calin Georgescu, a former senior official accused by his detractors of being favorable to the Kremlin, had worried in the west of the continent and plunged Romania into political turmoil.
The Constitutional Court invalidated the vote and excluded the sixties of this new race, after a massive campaign on Tiktok tainted with suspicions of Russian interference. He was replaced by George Simion, 38 and fourth in the fall, and the two men appeared together on Sunday in a polling station in Mogosoaia, near Bucharest.
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