Without the votes of Romania's ethnic Hungarians and Moldovans with dual Moldovan–Romanian citizenship, Nicusor Dan might not have been elected president of Romania — an important outcome for ...

After months of turmoil, Romania has narrowly avoided electing a president who openly opposes the country’s democratic foundations. In a runoff election on May 18, the far-right candidate George ...

Dan, currently serving as the Mayor of Bucharest, is no stranger to success. Romania has elected mathematician Nicusor Dan as its new president. Dan secured 54% of the vote, defeating nationalist ...

Leader of nationalist sovereign party 'Alliance for the Union of Romanians' AUR George Simion It appears that a broad swathe of centrist voters - those who normally vote for Romania’s two ...

Romania's political crisis ends with Nicușor Dan's firm victory in the presidential elections runoff on Sunday. Dan, an independent pro-Western candidate, won 53.60% of the vote. Romania is ...

BUCHAREST - Mr Nicusor Dan, the centrist mayor of Bucharest, won a tense rerun of Romania’s presidential election on May 18 ahead of nationalist George Simion, near complete results indicated.

The roads in the heart of Bucharest were swaying. People were singing, laughing, and looking up at a balcony, waiting for the next president to appear. In the end, he took to the street, walking ...

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Pro-European Union candidate Nicusor Dan has won Romania’s closely watched presidential runoff against a hard-right nationalist, nearly complete electoral data shows.

BUCHAREST, Romania — The pro-European Union candidate in Romania’s tense presidential runoff has taken a lead in the polls, preliminary electoral data shows, in a closely watched vote against ...

Polls have opened for the second round of Romania's presidential election - with little separating centrist candidate Nicusor Dan from the populist George Simion. Voting began at 7am (5am UK time ...

Pro-EU Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan has won Sunday's presidential runoff against George Simion, the leader of the hard-right Alliance for the Union of Romanians. This blog has now closed.

BUCHAREST, Romania — It might be Romania’s most consequential election since the fall of communism, when the dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife were shot by a firing squad. Romania today ...