Tate bro tears and EU delight as Dan beats right-winger in Romaniaโs election
Centrist Bucharest Mayor Nicuศor Dan won a stunning come-from-behind victory over hard-right George Simion.
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Romanian election exit polls: Centrist Bucharest mayor Nicuศor Dan on track to win
The 55 year old appears to have fended off hard-right candidate George Simion.
The shadowy warlord behind Romaniaโs wrecked electionย
Romaniaโs 2024 presidential election was controversially canceled for suspected foreign interference. Horaศiu Potra, an ally of banned candidate Cฤlin Georgescu, is accused of plotting an insurrection.
Who is winning the Romanian election?ย
Surveys show the centrist Bucharest mayor catching up with hard-right populist George Simion ahead of Sundayโs vote. But is this poll surge too late, or even real?
Romaniaโs Simion wants a broad coalition. Good luck with that.
Hard-right presidential candidate George Simion is extending a warm hand to other parties, but getting the cold shoulder.
Romania in chaos as prime minister resigns
The hard right cruised to victory in Sunday’s presidential election first round, sparking the stunning announcement from socialist PM Marcel Ciolacu.
How George Simion became a right-wing โmessiahโ for Romanians abroad
TikTok and ultranationalism propels hard-right chief to cult status among Romania’s diaspora.
Centrist Nicuศor Dan faces uphill battle to beat Simion in Romanian presidential runoff
Centrist mayor of Bucharest has to bridge a daunting deficit with hard-right leader.
Here we go again! How to watch Romaniaโs do-over election like a pro
The presidential election day is almost upon us. This is what you need to know.
MAGA man leads the field before Romanian election rerun
George Simion, the candidate tipped to win the first round of the presidential election, has publicly aligned himself with Donald Trump.
Romanian presidential candidate fights her own party to stay in election race
Elena Lasconi wants her rivals to know sheโs not quitting, despite having been knifed by her former political allies.
The Romanian election scenarios scaring Brussels
POLITICO analyzes all the data on the most likely presidential runoff races ahead of next month’s existential vote.
Romanian presidential hopeful under fire after admitting role in village flooding
Victor Ponta, who is running on a nationalist platform, said he sacrificed local farmland to spare his Serbian neighbors.ย
Romanian liberals drop own presidential candidate to support pro-EU Bucharest mayor
Centrist party aims to avoid the โtoxic scenarioโ of far-right and ultranationalist candidates both making the presidential election runoff.
Donald Trump Jr. to visit Romania right before contentious election
Trump Jr. previously criticized a Romanian court for canceling the 2024 presidential election.
The Romanian mathematician trying to stop Putin and Trump wrecking the West
Elon Musk and JD Vance donโt know enough to judge the countryโs election crisis, and Trump should be tougher on Putin, says Bucharest Mayor and presidential candidate Nicuศor Dan.
US postpones visa-free travel for Romanians
Romania, one of the last EU members not included in the Visa Waiver Program, had been due to join in March.
After Georgescuโs disqualification, hereโs whoโs running for president of Romania
Authorities have cleared a dozen candidates for the May election โ and rejected a dozen others. Meet the runners and riders here.ย
Romania far-right leader Simion cleared for presidential race
Far-right candidates have entered the May election fray following the exclusion of ultranationalist Cฤlin Georgescu.
Romania lashes out at Russia as Georgescu election ban furor intensifies
Moscow: Stop violating democratic norms! Bucharest: That’s rich coming from you.
Romaniaโs top court rejects Georgescuโs appeal, bars him from running for president
The decision by the countryโs constitutional court is final.
Kremlin: Romaniaโs election is โillegitimateโ without barred pro-Russia front-runner
The far-right front-runner was barred on Sunday from the presidential election’s rerun.
Mercenary boss calls for Romania to โboil overโ after far-right front-runner blocked from race
Horaลฃiu Potra called the election bureau’s decision to block Cฤlin Georgescu’s presidential bid a “globalist coup.”
Trump and Putin gang up on European centrists in Romaniaโs election crisis
Elon Musk slams Romanian authorities for banning far-right frontrunner Cฤlin Georgescu. Itโs another win for the Kremlin.
Romania foils โrevolutionโ of pro-Russia group featuring a 101-year-old man
The group wanted to change country’s name, anthem and flag.
MAGA heavyweights lash out over Romanian police raids targeting Cฤlin Georgescu
“This is messed up,” wrote Elon Musk as he joined Jack Posobiec and JD Vance in weighing in on the election turmoil in Bucharest.
Romanian police haul in election front-runner Cฤlin Georgescu for questioning
Local media reported the pro-Russia candidate is being quizzed over the financing of his controversial โ and successful โ election campaign late last year.
Romaniaโs Klaus Iohannis announces heโll resign as president
Longtime leader heads for the exit amid political turmoil in Bucharest.
The West is trying to interfere in our elections, Russia moans
Kremlin whacks the U.S. with claim about vote-meddling.
Romanian far-right chiefโs bid to reinstate election result fails in European court
The unprecedented cancelation of Romaniaโs vote drew condemnation from across the political spectrum.
The West wants WW3, Romaniaโs presidential front-runner tells conspiracist Alex Jones
Ultranationalist Cฤlin Georgescu lashes out at “globalist elite” in rambling interview with hard-right U.S. influencer.
Romania sets new election date, but risks same result
Unless he is banned, ultranationalist Cฤlin Georgescu seems very much in the race for a presidential rerun in May.
How Putin won the Romanian election
Voters on NATOโs eastern flank were already ripe for Moscowโs manipulation, after decadesย ofย misrule.
Report ties Romanian liberals to TikTok campaign that fueled pro-Russia candidate
A campaign from a governing center-right party may have been hijacked to benefit far-right candidate Cฤlin Georgescu, snoop.ro report shows.
Bucharest mayor enters Romanian presidential race
“We are at a turning point,” says successful local politician after previous presidential runoff round was canceled by top court over foreign influence concerns.
TikTok influencers flee Romania amid tax probe into their election role
Romanian tax authorities are now investigating ultranationalist Cฤlin Georgescu and the TikTok activists who promoted his campaign.
Romanian police foil armed mercenaries in Jan. 6 style plot
Some 20 people were detained on way to Bucharest with weapons, according to local media.
Prosecutors raid properties of key Georgescu backer in Romania election probe
Investigation focuses on money laundering, bribing voters and computer fraud in connection with Romaniaโs canceled presidential election.
Romanian election: What the hell is going on?
Warnings of a massive Russian hybrid attack distorting Romania’s democracy prompted the Constitutional Court to cancel the presidential election.
Romanian court cancels presidential election amid Russian influence fears
Constitutional court throws Romanian politics into turmoil, 2 days before runoff vote was due to take place.
Romaniaโs pro-Europeans fear Putin is pushing them back to dictatorshipย
Far-right NATO-skeptic Calin Georgescu is on track to win the Romanian presidency, thanks to a Russia-influenced campaign.ย
Romaniaโs presidential front-runner Georgescu benefited from Russia-style booster campaign, declassified docs say
The files, released by the outgoing liberal president, donโt specify the Kremlin tried to swing the election in Cฤlin Georgescu’s favor but strongly suggest it.
Romaniaโs Trump sets his sights on foreign companies
Cฤlin Georgescu tells POLITICO that foreign investors are too prevalent in key utility sectors thanks to a wave of unjustified privatizations.
Exit poll: Romaniaโs Social Democrats lead in parliamentary vote, but hard-right momentum builds
Although the center left came first, the success of three far-right parties could be significant before the Dec. 8 second round of the presidential election.
Election annulment risks pouring fuel on Romaniaโs political blaze
Many Romanians are suspicious of the country’s traditional old parties and fear they are trying to manipulate a rerun.
Belgiumโs Romanians poised to propel the far right into power
Frustrated with mainstream parties and unable to return home, Romanians abroad are emerging as staunch supporters of ultranationalist presidential hopeful Cฤlin Georgescu.