George Simion, the hard-right leader of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians, is projected to win the first round of Romania’s presidential election with around 40 percent of the vote, according to partial results from the country’s election authority.
Simion badges himself as a supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement, wants to stop military aid to Ukraine and will leave the EU quaking as another key country threatens to turn its back on mainstream European policies.
“I promise I will always heed the will of the people. I am here to serve Romanians, not the other way around,” Simion said in a statement early Monday.
The leader of the nationalist Alliance for the Union of Romanians George Simion won the first round of Romania's presidential election with 40.88% of the votes after 99.9% of the ballots were counted, the Permanent Electoral Authority reported.
Independent candidate and Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan came in second with 20.98% of the vote. The sole candidate of the parties of the ruling coalition of the Social Democratic Party, the National Liberal Party and the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians of Romania, Crin Antonescu, came third with 20.12% of the vote.
Simion also won the first round among Romanians living in the diaspora. With 98.76% of the votes counted, he received 60.55% of the votes, Dan 25.4% and Antonescu 6.84%.
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ReplyDeleteThe governing coalition parties are set to hold a meeting Monday afternoon.
Sunday’s vote was part of the election do-over that Romania’s top court ordered in December, after canceling the November ballot over allegations of illegal campaigning and potential Russian interference in favor of Călin Georgescu, an ultranationalist firebrand who came out of nowhere to win the first round.