George Simion will have to face the current mayor of Bucharest and independent candidate, Nicusor Dan, in the second round on May 18. The leader of the far-right party Alliance for the Unification of ...

Days before the Romanian presidential election runoff, the two presidential hopefuls are neck-and-neck. According to the ...

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Dan, an independent running on an anti-corruption platform, overtook former senator Crin Antonescu, 65, a centrist candidate backed by the three parties in the pro-western coalition government for his ...

In third place was the governing coalition’s joint candidate, Crin Antonescu, with 20.07%, and behind him Victor Ponta, a former prime minister from 2012-2015, with 13% of the vote, while Elena ...

Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan was trailing in second with 20.89%, with the governing coalition’s joint candidate, Crin Antonescu, in third with 20.34%. Mr Antonescu conceded defeat, saying he believes ...

AUR party leader George Simion is ahead in Romania's presidential election, with 40.1% of votes in his favour, according to preliminary results. He will now have to face an independent pro-Western ...

A George Simion victory could isolate Romania, erode private investment and destabilise NATO's eastern flank, where Ukraine is fighting a three-year-old Russian invasion, political observers say.

Far from sudden, the far right’s rise in Romania is rooted in decades of economic failure: Chronic underdevelopment, ...

By Luiza Ilie and Elizaveta Gladun BUCHAREST (Reuters) -Eurosceptic George Simion appeared on course for victory in the first round of Romania's presidential election re-run on Sunday, partial results ...

Romanian hard-right candidate George Simion was ahead in a presidential election first round, followed by centrist candidate Crin Antonescu, an exit poll showed on Sunday.

Ruling coalition candidate - Crin Antonescu, who has the support of Romania's governing pro-European coalition, has branded himself as "the candidate of stability". Running on the slogan "Romania ...