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Bloomberg News reports:
The centrist mayor of Bucharest won Romania’s presidential runoff on Sunday, quashing the ambitions of a far-right Donald Trump loyalist as voters came out in force to ensure that the Black Sea nation held steady on a pro-European path.
Nicusor Dan, an independent and one-time math prodigy, secured more than 54% of the vote in the contest, Romania’s election authority said, with 98% of polling stations reporting.
George Simion [photo], leader of the far-right Alliance for the Unity of Romanians, had about 46%.
Read the full article. Germany, Canada, Australia, and now Romania have all rejected the right since Trump’s election.
JUST IN: According to exit polls, moderate, pro-EU candidate Nicușor Dan has defeated far-right populist George Simion—a Trump and Putin admirer—in Romania’s presidential runoff pic.twitter.com/n3XNr1eEUr
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) May 18, 2025
Breaking: The centrist mayor of Bucharest won Romania’s presidential runoff on Sunday, quashing the ambitions of a far-right Donald Trump loyalist https://t.co/NahDZrnGJx
— Bloomberg (@business) May 18, 2025
Romania appears to be the latest nation to have rejected the far right. Perhaps a reverse Trump effect, having seen what damage can be done? https://t.co/HjRHsi5veH
— Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth) May 18, 2025
Election results confirm that Bucharest mayor Nicusor Dan will be the next president of Romania.
Romania is not going right-wing nationalist; runner-up candidate George Simion wanted to restore pre-WW2 borders and aligned himself strongly with the Trump administration pic.twitter.com/RNtbQc9g9Q
— Populism Updates (@PopulismUpdates) May 18, 2025
The MAGA influence machine, including Elon Musk himself, is actively endorsing Romania’s far-right, isolationist presidential candidate.
Same playbook they used in Germany, Canada, and Australia.But just like those countries fought back and prevailed, so will Nicusor Dan and… pic.twitter.com/HA4qO8IQLt
— European Ordinar 🇷🇴🇪🇺🇲🇩 (@unitaxium) May 5, 2025
Meet our Nicusor Dan, the new President of Romania. Genius IQ, twice winner of the math olympiad, both times with perfect scores, PhD in Math at France’s Sorbonne and all round a soft spoken, hard working, decent man! pic.twitter.com/D759t5RfWS
— Daractenus (@Daractenus) May 18, 2025