{"id":23387,"date":"2025-05-05T04:20:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T04:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/romanian-nationalist-wins-first-round-of-presidential-voting\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T04:20:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T04:20:50","slug":"romanian-nationalist-wins-first-round-of-presidential-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/romanian-nationalist-wins-first-round-of-presidential-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Romanian Nationalist Wins First Round of Presidential Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">George Simion, a right-wing nationalist who has promised to \u201cMake Romania Great Again,\u201d won the first round of his country\u2019s presidential election on Sunday, bucking the recent trend of voters punishing candidates seen as friendly to President Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">With more than 98 percent of the votes cast inside Romania counted, Mr. Simion was far ahead of 10 rival candidates, garnering more than 40 percent. A partial count of the votes of Romanians living abroad, who generally tilt hard right, also gave Mr. Simion a big lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/prezenta.roaep.ro\/prezidentiale04052025\/pv\/romania\/results\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The results<\/a>, though incomplete, ensured Mr. Simion a slot in a runoff on May 18 against the likely second-place finisher, Nicusor Dan, the centrist mayor of Bucharest, Romania\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Unlike voters in Canada and Australia who in recent elections favored parties openly opposed to Mr. Trump, Romanians, by supporting Mr. Simion, rewarded one of Europe\u2019s most vocal admirers of the MAGA movement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Romanian voters also gave a strong rebuke to a decision in December by the country\u2019s Constitutional Court <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/06\/world\/europe\/romania-election-court.html\" title=\"\">to annul an earlier first round<\/a> of the presidential ballot and to cancel the victory of Calin Georgescu<a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/06\/world\/europe\/romania-election-court.html\" title=\"\">,<\/a> an ultranationalist. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/27\/world\/europe\/romania-calin-georgescu.html\" title=\"\">He was charged<\/a> in February with various crimes, including illegal campaigning and involvement in the establishment of an organization \u201cwith a fascist, racist or xenophobic character.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Georgescu, who was barred from competing in the rescheduled vote, voted on Sunday alongside Mr. Simion. Both men have cast themselves as champions of ordinary Romanians against a corrupt establishment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Celebrating the results Sunday evening, Mr. Simion declared the election a \u201cvictory for Romanian dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cDespite the obstacles,\u201d he said, \u201cdespite the manipulation, despite a press paid to demean us day after day, Romanians have stood up.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Simion shares many of Mr. Georgescu\u2019s views, including hostility to the European Union and opposition to military aid for Ukraine. A fixture of Romanian politics for years, however, he is far better known \u2014 and is seen as somewhat more predictable \u2014 than Mr. Georgescu, an erratic figure prone to mystical ruminations and to admiring comments about past Romanian fascists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Few Romanians had heard of Mr. Georgescu until he won the initial round of the vote after a surge of support driven by a mysterious flood of videos on TikTok in the final days of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Constitutional Court canceled his victory just two days before a December runoff vote that Mr. Georgescu had been well positioned to win. The court said it had wanted \u201cto ensure the correctness and legality of the electoral process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The court\u2019s intervention prompted street protests and complaints <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/14\/world\/europe\/vance-europe-immigration-ukraine.html\" title=\"\">by Vice President JD Vanc<\/a>e that Europe was in \u201cretreat\u201d from democracy and free speech. The ruling came after Romania\u2019s security service released declassified intelligence reports that pointed to possible Russian interference in the election campaign, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/23\/world\/europe\/romania-election-russia.html\" title=\"\">but provided no solid evidence<\/a> of that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Romania\u2019s president has limited powers, but they include overall command of the armed forces, a big say in military spending and oversight of foreign policy. Control of economic and other domestic policies rests with Parliament, in which centrist forces have a narrow majority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Andrada Lautaru<!-- --> contributed reporting from Bucharest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/04\/world\/europe\/romania-election-george-simion.html\">Source link 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