Romania’s Hungarians voted against hard-right candidate George Simion in the first round of the presidential elections, but ...

President Nicușor Dan, 55, officially begins his term at the Cotroceni Palace today. He entered the race as a second- or even third-tier candidate, clawed ...

Bucharest, Romania – Romania is heading towards its most polarised presidential election in the country’s democratic history, with voters braced for the battle between a right-wing populist and a ...

Voters from that group shifted their backing from establishment candidate Crin Antonescu in the first round to Dan in the runoff. Despite Dan’s victory, the rapid growth of support for Simion and ...

Nicusor Dan, the centrist and pro-European mayor of Bucharest, has been elected Romania’s new president. His victory over ultranationalist George Simion marks a decisive choice for pro-Western ...

The party did not even stand a candidate in the election, instead choosing to endorse Crin Antonescu, an old figure of the mainstream right who failed to make the runoff. What’s more ...

Simion appealed to the ethnic Hungarians of Romania who backed the tent coalition candidate Crin Antonescu to the hilt in the first round. The Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR in ...

Dan finished more votes than Crin Antonescu, the governing head of the Social-Democrat and National Liberal coalition but still had to defeat Simion in a second round of voting. Dan has held his ...

The central Romania counties of Covasna and Harghita, where Crin Antonescu, the ruling coalition’s candidate, won during the first round, voted massively for Dan, who had scores of over 80% in ...

As for the redistribution of votes from candidates who participated in the first round, the majority of votes for Crin Antonescu, the candidate backed by PSD-PNL-UDMR, would go to Nicușor Dan ...

Romania’s ruling coalition, made up of the Social Democrats, Liberals, and the ethnic Hungarian UDMR, collapsed after their candidate Crin Antonescu failed to reach the second round. Prime ...