Sunday’s presidential election was a vote repetition held on November 24, which was annulled by the Constitutional Court on suspicion of Russian interference
The second classified in Romania’s presidential elections, independent Nicusor Dan, warned today that the second round, on the 18th, will be “a fight” between a position of the country for or against the West.
“A difficult second lap is coming, with the isolation candidate,” said Nicusor Dan, referring to his competitor on the 18th, populist George Simion, who won the first lap with 40.96% of the votes.
In a first reaction to the results of the first lap of the presidential, known in the early hours of today, Nicusor Dan, who had 20.99% of the votes, warned that the presidential election “will not be a debate between people, but a debate between a pro-occident direction to Romania and an anto-clase direction to Romania.”
“Our task is to convince the Romanians that Romania needs the Western direction and that is what our campaign is about the next two weeks,” he said.
He said he believed in the victory of his candidacy: “I am optimistic that we will win this battle and that Romania will maintain a western direction.”
Dan also thanked voters for the way the vote took place, considering that “it was the democratic process that Romania needed.”
Sunday’s presidential election was a vote repetition held on November 24, which was annulled by the Constitutional Court for suspected Russian interference.
In this election, he won, with 23% of the votes, a popular competitor hitherto practically unknown, Calin Georgescu, whose candidacy was catapulted within a few weeks on social networks, especially Tiktok, through thousands of fake profiles.
The candidate was prevented from running for this election, being accused by the court of six crimes, including unconstitutional acts and false financial statements.
According to official data and when the counting of the votes is completed, George Simion was the most voted, with 40.96% of the votes (3,862,405 votes), followed by Nicusor Dan (20.99%, corresponding to 1,979,711 votes).
The struggle for second place and consequent passage to the second lap was remedy, with the candidate supported by the government coalition, Crin Antonescu, to obtain 20.99% of the votes (1,892,925).
Former Prime Minister Victor Ponta was fourth with 13.05% (1,230,143), while Elena Lasconi, who had spent the second lap in November with 19% of the votes, now received only 252,708 votes (2.68%).
In total, 11 candidates presented themselves to the elections of Romania, a member country of the European Union and NATO, to choose the president, who is responsible for conducting foreign and defense policy.
