George Simion, Romania and Dan
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In shocking fashion, the nation's centrist candidate, Nicusor Dan defeated a right-wing nationalist, George Simion, garnering 56 percent of the votes.
Nicușor Dan (independent centrist politician and incumbent Mayor of Bucharest) won the 2025 Romanian presidential election decisively over George Simion
Hard-right nationalist George Simion could win Romania’s presidential election run-off on Sunday – a vote being held five months after the original election was annulled.
Centrist candidate Nicușor Dan has been elected President of Romania after defeating conservative rival George Simion in the second round of voting held on May 18. Dan, currently the mayor
The leader of the Romanian opposition party Alliance for the Unification of Romanians (AUR), George Simion, admitted defeat in the presidential election. He stated this in his video message on the page in the social network.
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Far-right candidate George Simion, who took the lead in the first round of the Romanian parliamentary elections on 4 May, will face off against the centrist mayor of Bucharest, Nicușor Dan ...
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Al Jazeera on MSNRomania election: George Simion and Nicusor Dan face off in tense run-offThe election result could reshape the direction of the pro-EU and NATO member nation bordering war-torn Ukraine.
The far-right candidate is the favorite to win the second round of the presidential election on Sunday.
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bne IntelliNews on MSNViktor Orban makes huge political misstep in supporting Simion, Hungarian analyst saysThe outcome has been a defeat for Viktor Orban as ethnic Hungarians overwhelmingly supported the pro-European candidate, independent media wrote on May 19, citing a political analyst and a former leader of UMDR (RMDSZ),