George Simion did not hold back after fellow ultranationalist Călin Georgescu was banned from standing in Romania’s presidential election in March. “Those who committed the coup d’état ...

When Simion faces off against opponent Nicușor Dan in two weeks’ time, it will be the first time a candidate from one of the mainstream parties — the social democrats or national liberals — did not ...

The only thing standing between hard-right nationalist George Simion and the Romanian presidency is a mathematician who can see the odds aren’t great. The numbers whizz is Nicușor Dan, now the ...

Elena Lasconi, the president of the Save Romania Union (USR), has resigned from the party’s helm after the weak score she received in the first round of the presidential elections. Lasconi, who ...

In the months since that election result was scrapped — far-right shock winner Călin Georgescu was disqualified and a new vote ordered by the country’s constitutional court after the Romanian ...

Georgescu was set to face reformist Elena Lasconi in the second round. Lasconi, whose center-right Union Save Romania party leadership abandoned her to support Dan, only received some 2.68 percent of ...

TikTok then removed 78 accounts operating from Romania, with more than 1,700 followers that attempted to promote Călin Georgescu's campaign and 5,500 pieces of election-related content in Romania ...

Elena Lasconi — Trying for a repeat: Lasconi, also a centrist mayor with Save Romania Union, came in second to Georgescu. So she would have been the anti-populist standard-bearer if that contest ...

Then there’s Elena Lasconi, another centrist candidate for the reformist Save Romania Union (USR). A former journalist, Lasconi entered politics in 2020 when she successfully ran for mayor of a small ...

Crin Antonescu Nicușor Dan Victor Ponta Elena Lasconi Călin Georgescu ... 41.0 33.9 21.4 20.0 14.5 7.5 ...

After all, no survey predicted that Călin Georgescu would win the first round of last year’s presidential ballot, before the country’s top court canceled the election over allegations that the ...

All eyes are on Romania. The country goes to the polls on May 4 in the first round of a controversial presidential election, after concerns over Russian interference triggered an annulment of the ...