Nicusor Dan, a centrist mayor of Bucharest and a staunch supporter of NATO and the European Union, is on track to win the Romanian presidential election.
Dan won with 54.9 percent of the vote on Sunday, according to exit polls. His rival, George Simion, a radical nationalist, had a 45.1 percentile.
Simion quickly rejected the exit poll, claiming that his count estimates put him at 400,000 more votes than Dan.
Dan had pledged to fight widespread corruption and keep Romania firmly rooted in the European mainstream when he ran his campaign.
Turnout in the Sunday run-off was significantly higher, and it is likely to determine the outcome.
Later on Sunday, the official results are anticipated.
Romania experienced its worst political crisis in decades when the presidential election was postponed due to the cancellation of the original election.
Following accusations of electoral violations and Russian interference, a top court in Romania’s political landscape caused a resurgence after the previous election, in which far-right independent Calin Georgescu won the first-round polls.
Simion said he voted against the “humiliations to which our sisters and brothers have been subjected,” and he also said he did this at a Bucharest polling station on Sunday.
He said, “We voted against poverty and abuses.” “I voted for Romanians and Romania to decide our future,” he said. So, “Help us, God”!
Source: Aljazeera
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