We’ve got the first round of the Romanian presidential election
On Sunday, Romania voted in the first round of the repeated presidential election. As the polls predicted, George Simion, the leader of the Association for the Association of the Right-right Romanians, won highly. The biggest question of the day was who will be second-place to the independent mayor of Bucharest, Nicușor Dan and the candidate for the PSD-PNL-RMDSZ government coalition Crin Antonescu.
For a long time Antonescu led but After midnight, Dan took the lead with more than 10,000 votes, so on May 18, he can take the glove against Aur candidate – report a Translex.
The results
The 99.99 percent of votes after counting
- George Simion finished 40.96 percent in first place,
- While Nicușor Dan secured second place by 20.99 percent.
- Crin Antonescu results in 20.07 percent,
- Victor Ponta, a former Social Democrat, now independent, is 13.06 percent,
- USR president Elena Lasconi gained 2.68 percent.
- Lavinia șandru (0.64%), Daniel Funeriu (0.53%), Cristian Frameș (0.39%), Sebastian Constantin Popescu (0.28%), John Ion Banu (0.23%) and Silviu Predoiu.
A huge scandal burst out two days before the Romanian presidential election – they attack one candidate with compromising photos
So they made a statement
After the choices Simion declaredto “This is not just an election victory, this is the victory of Romanian dignity”. He stressed that the voters’ decision is a clear message to the political elite that they wanted a change in the country’s control. Dan thanked the voters’ support.
« It is our job to convince people that Romania needs Western-friendly direction, and that will focus on our campaign in the next two weeks. I ask all voters to take part in this fight.– quotes Agerpres News agency Nicușor Dant.
Crin Antonescu admitted his defeat on Sunday night, saying in his speech that he would leave with a raised person, adding to his voters who would be supported in the second round.
The May elections will take place after the Constitutional Court in December during an unprecedented step invalidated the result of the presidential election. The otherwise turbulent Romanian policy It accelerated even more.
