Pro-EU-centricists win Romanian presidential election, while tough nationalists
Pro-European Union candidate Nicusor Dan won Romania's closely watched presidential election, with tough nationalists, almost complete election data showing. Sunday’s massive votes played a key role in the tense election, a geopolitical choice that many consider to be between the East and the West.
The game puts the leader George Simion, the leader of the 38-year-old tough league, who is the unity of Romanians or Aur against Bucharest Mayor Dan.
It was held a few months after the cancellation of the pre-election, and for decades, Romania was in its worst political crisis.
According to official data, after calculating 10.7 million of 11.6 million votes, Dan led the way at 54.19%, while Simion earned 45.81%. In the first round of votes on May 4, Simion won almost twice the vote for DAN, and many local surveys predicted that he would secure the presidency.
But in a swing of a way that deviates from the EU's more skeptical approach, Romania joined the EU in 2007, with Dan claiming nearly 900,000 votes to defeat his opponent firmly in the final round.
When the vote closed at 9 p.m. local time, formal election data showed that voter turnout was 64%. Around 1.64 million Romanians participated in the vote at specially established polling stations abroad, 660,000 more than the first round. In the first round of the match on May 4, the final turnout was 53% of qualified voters.
Dan told reporters that “the election is not about politicians” but about the community, and in Sunday’s vote, “a Romanian wins and this community wants a profound change in Romania.”
“When Romania goes through tough times, let's remember the power of this Romanian society,” he said. “There is another community that has lost its elections today. One community is angry at the way it is doing politics in Romania now.”
Thousands of people gathered outside Dan headquarters near Bucharest City Hall, waiting for the final result, shouting “Nicos!” His lead expanded whenever his lead grew, with many people waving the EU flag and cheering.
Romania's political landscape was overturned last year when the Supreme Court denied Moscow's allegations denied Moscow, when far-right outsider Calin Georgescu won the chief poll in the first round of the poll.
After finishing fourth in the match cancelled last year, Simion supports Georgescu, who was banned from election redoing in March. Then, Simion became the first round on May 4, and after becoming the standard carrier of the hard right-handed, he ran forward.
Years of popular corruption and growing anger at Romanian political institutions have sparked support for anti-establishment and tough figures, reflecting a broader model throughout Europe. Both Simion and Dan made their political professions rail the old political class in Romania.
