Nicusor Dan is Romania's leader after beating hard-right Trump fan 
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Pro-western centrist politician Nicusor Dan has unexpectedly beaten Trump-supporting George Simion in the presidential election.

Mr. Dan, currently serving as Bucharest’s mayor, faced off against the far-right nationalist Simion in an election crucial for the geopolitical future of this NATO member nation.

The vote was held months after the cancellation of the previous election plunged Romania into its worst political crisis in decades.

According to the official tally, Mr Dan was leading by nearly nine percentage points with more than 98 per cent of the votes counted.

There were not enough votes remaining for Mr Simion to make a comeback.

After exit polls suggested he wasn’t going to win, Trump-supporting Mr Simion rejected the result and said estimates put him 400,000 votes ahead.

After the polls closed, Mr. Simion confidently declared his victory on Facebook, stating, ‘I won!!! I am the new President of Romania and I am restoring power to the Romanians!’ 

By the end of the voting period at 9 p.m. local time, approximately 64 percent of eligible voters, or 11.6 million individuals, had participated, based on official electoral statistics.

Pro-western centrist politician Nicusor Dan has taken an early lead in Romania 's presidential election runoff

Pro-western centrist politician Nicusor Dan has taken an early lead in Romania ‘s presidential election runoff

Leader of nationalist sovereign party 'Alliance for the Union of Romanians' AUR George Simion speaks to supporters after first exit polls were announced, in the second round of the Presidential election in Bucharest, Romania, on May 18, 2025

Leader of nationalist sovereign party ‘Alliance for the Union of Romanians’ AUR George Simion speaks to supporters after first exit polls were announced, in the second round of the Presidential election in Bucharest, Romania, on May 18, 2025

About 1.64million Romanians abroad, who have been able to vote since Friday at specially set-up polling stations, participated in the vote.

After polls closed on Sunday, Mr Dan told the media that ‘elections are not about politicians’ but about communities and that in Sunday’s vote, ‘a community of Romanians has won, a community that wants a profound change in Romania’.

‘When Romania goes through difficult times, let us remember the strength of this Romanian society,’ he said. 

‘There is also a community that lost today’s elections. A community that is rightly outraged by the way politics has been conducted in Romania up to now.’

Turnout was significantly higher in Sunday’s runoff and is expected to play a decisive role in the outcome. 

In the first round on May 4, final turnout stood at 9.5million, or 53 per cent of eligible voters.

Romania’s political landscape was upended last year when a top court voided the previous election in which far-right outsider Calin Georgescu topped first-round polls, following allegations of electoral violations and Russian interference, which Moscow denied.

Standing on the steps of Romania’s colossal Communist-era parliament building after polls closed, Mr Simion predicted a significant victory over his opponent, which he called a ‘victory of the Romanian people’.

Mr Simion said that Mr Georgescu was ‘supposed to be the president’ before last year’s election was annulled. 

After polls closed on Sunday, Mr Dan told the media that 'elections are not about politicians' but about communities and that in Sunday's vote, 'a community of Romanians has won, a community that wants a profound change in Romania'

After polls closed on Sunday, Mr Dan told the media that ‘elections are not about politicians’ but about communities and that in Sunday’s vote, ‘a community of Romanians has won, a community that wants a profound change in Romania’

He also called for vigilance against election fraud, but said that overall he was satisfied with the conduct of the vote.

Shortly after 6pm, Romania’s ministry of foreign affairs spokesperson Andrei Tarnea said in a post on X that the election was subject to a ‘viral campaign of fake news’ on the Telegram messaging app and other social media platforms, which tried to influence the electoral process and had ‘the hallmarks of Russian interference’.

Networks of co-ordinated disinformation have emerged as a pervasive force throughout Romania’s entire election cycle. 

Romanian authorities debunked the deluge of fake news, Mr Tarnea said.

Mr Simion appeared alongside Mr Georgescu at a Bucharest polling station on Sunday and told reporters that he voted against the ‘humiliations to which our sisters and brothers have been subjected’.

‘We voted against abuses and against poverty,’ he said. 

‘I voted for our future to be decided only by Romanians, for Romanians and Romania. So help us God.’

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