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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Days before the Romanian presidential election runoff, the two presidential hopefuls are neck-and-neck. According to the latest poll by AtlasIntel, far-right George Simion and liberal pro-EU Bucharest ...

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 ...

The Hungarian minority party UDMR/RMDSZ joined a wide government coalition to support single candidate, Crin Antonescu. As a hard-right nationalist, Simion has been vocal against the Hungarian ...

Meanwhile Bucharest mayor and independent candidate Nicușor Dan, who came in second after leapfrogging the ruling big tent candidate Crin Antonescu in a dramatic finish to Sunday's vote count ...

Romania's hard-right presidential frontrunner George Simion will win the May 18 run-off vote against centrist Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan, an opinion survey showed on Wednesday, as the two clashed ...

In a joint interview with Euronews and Euronews Romania, Dan, who came in second after leapfrogging the ruling big tent candidate Crin Antonescu in a dramatic finish to Sunday's vote count ...