First ExitPoll points to Pro-European Nicusor as the winner of Romanian presidential elections

The pro-European, central, independent candidate Nicusor, then the Romanian presidential election seems to be winning. This is evident from the results in the first ExitPoll of this Sunday: there will be 54.9 percent of the votes. His opponent, the right -wing and Eurosceptic George Simion, gets stuck at 45.1 percent.

In these exit polls, the voices from the Romanian diaspora are not yet included, which make up more than 10 percent of the voters. During the first round of voting, they opted for Simion in a large majority.

Then the current mayor of Bucharest is and in the first round of voting was especially popular with city dwellers. The 55-year-old mathematician campaign led a strong bond with Europe, for more greenery in cities and against corruption. In a first reaction to the ExitPoll, he says, writes Reuters news agency that the elections were about « people who want dialogue, not hatred. »

The first result of this second voting round is quite unexpected: few thought that then would have a chance towards Simion. Then would be too progressive, too unknown, and have too little support from other parties. Then as an independent candidate is not affiliated with a party.

Russian influence

His opponent George Simion participated in the elections on behalf of the second party in the Romanian parliament, the right-wing-conservative party Aur. Simion took over the candidacy from the ultra -nationalist candidate Calin Georgescu, who won the first election round in November. That round was declared invalid for possible Russian influence, Georgescu was excluded from elections.

Simion was supported by Georgescu in his campaign and used his own version of Trumps election slace: ‘Make Romania Great Again’. He immediately rejected the results of the first exit poll on Sunday and claimed that he actually achieved more than 400,000 votes more than than. On X He wrote: « I am the new president (of Romania). »

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