Observers expect the final vote to pit the nationalist George Simion against Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, of the Social Democratic Party. The frontrunners for the largely ceremonial role are Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu,

As Romania’s presidential election draws near, George Simeon, the leader of the far-right Union of Romanians (AUR) party, is emerging as a leading ca

Romanians started casting ballots on Sunday in the first round of a presidential election that could pit a far-right nationalist against the incumbent leftist prime minister in the runoff.

Experts expect the final vote to pit far-right George Simion against incumbent center-left Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu. The diaspora is expected to play a pivotal role in the outcome of the election.

Romanians vote in the first round of a presidential election on Sunday, with worries about the cost of living likely to earn radical right leader George Simion, who opposes military aid to Ukraine, a shot at victory.

To her fans Diana Iovanovici Sosoaca is "the mother of the nation." For the Romanian state, the nationalist member of the European Parliament is a danger to democracy.

George Simion, Romania's youngest presidential candidate, admires U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and would stop military aid to Ukraine, while his vocal anti-Brussels rhetoric chimes with that of Hungary's Viktor Orban.