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Nicusor Dan, on the night of the presidential election in Romania
Nicusor Dan, pro-Europe, had achieved about half of the votes of nationalist George Simion. But now the outcome is quite different.
The candidate Europe Nicusor Dan should win The second lap of the elections presidential Romenas, held this Sunday, with a vote between 54,1% e 54,9%according to the first projections, known at 21:00 locations (less two hours in Lisbon).
O George Simion nationalist, that won the first lap with almost 41% of the votes, should now obtain between 45,1% e 45,9%.
The Curs Institute of Surveys assigns 54.1% of the votes to Nicusor Dan and 45.9% to Simion. The surveys company Avangarde states that Dan will win with 54.9%, while the opponent will have 45.1%.
In the first lap, the independent Nicusor Dan had obtained almost half of Simion’s votesclose to 21%.
Nicusor Dan stated that they beat the Romanians who wanted “a deep change ” and defended the need to Fight “not for two, but for a Romania”.
“The elections are not about politicians, the elections are about the communities. And in today’s elections, a community of Romanians who wants a deep change in Romania won,” said independent candidate Nicusor Dan, moments after the first projections to the ballot box, who attribute victory in the second round of presidentials.
This winning community, he argued, “wants state institutions to work, or to reduce corruption and a prosperous economic environment for Romanians, or a dialogue society and not a hate society,” according to the Romanian HotNews’ website.
According to official data, the participation was 64.70%, or 11,639,301 voters, totaling almost 18 million voters. In the first lap, the participation was 53%.
Until 19:00 local, two hours before the end of the ballot box, according to official data, the participation reached 59,48% From the electorate, far above 53.21% recorded in the first lap, held on May 4, at the same time.
In concrete, 10,700,256 people voted until 7:00 pm, while two weeks ago 9,571,740 people had voted by the same time, according to official data.
According to the Spanish news agency Efe, this number was driven by a increase significant participation of Romanian community resident abroadwhich includes 1,533 668 people who voted for the diaspora.
The highest number of voters was registered in Italy, with 253,720 votes until 18:00 local (less one hour in Lisbon), while in Germany 249,252 voters went to the polls. The United Kingdom is in third place with 234,728 votes and Spain with 162,608 votes.
The vote was marked by new allegations of foreign interference.
“During the current presidential elections in Romania, we again see the marks of interference Russian. A viral campaign of fake news on Telegram and other social networking platforms aims to influence the electoral process. This was already expected and Romania’s authorities unmasked the fake news, ”wrote the spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Romanian on social network X.
Shortly before, Telegram’s founder, Pavel Durov, had accused France, without appointing her to have tried to interfere with the elections, asking the platform to “silence the conservative voices in Romania,” something Paris firmly denied.
On the other hand, nationalist candidate George Simion, winner of the first lap, held on May 4, with almost 41% of the votes, again raised accusations of Electoral fraud.
