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In Romania’s presidential election, ultra-nationalist candidate Călin Georgescu is leading, ... Marcel Ciolacu took first place, while liberal candidate Elena Lasconi came second.

Romanian ultranationalist Călin Georgescu won a shock first-round victory in the country’s presidential elections, according to official results published Monday afternoon. Georgescu won with 22.94 ...

What’s happening? This Sunday, Romanians were due to vote in the second-round runoff election for their next president. They had two candidates to pick from: center-right small-town mayor Elena ...

Elena Lasconi, president of the center-right Union Save Romania party, who had been due to face Georgescu in the runoff last year before the election was canceled, called on the bureau to explain its ...

The postponement, coming after a court meeting in Bucharest on Thursday morning, means the two candidates who should contest the runoff on Dec. 8 — ultranationalist independent candidate Călin ...

Preliminary results indicate that Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu and liberal candidate Elena Lasconi will advance to the second ... ・Elena Lasconi - 18,10% ・Călin Georgescu - 16,00% ・George ...

Romania’s Constitutional Court has annulled the results of the first round of the presidential election. This means that the entire electoral process will be restarted in full, according to News.ro.

A survey on 1 December at polling stations showed far-right candidate Călin Georgescu would win 57.8% in the presidential election run-off to centrist Elena Lasconi's 42.2%.

Elena Lasconi, who was set to face Georgescu in the canceled runoff, warned that barring him from running could further inflame an already volatile political landscape. As international scrutiny ...