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ER Editor:  LIVE POLLING RESULTS https://prezenta.roaep.ro/prezidentiale04052025/pv/romania/results/

10:30PM

https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1919120566948155902

BREAKING: GEORGE SIMION HOLDS STRONG LEAD WITH 76% OF VOTES COUNTED

With 76.32% of vote reports processed, Simion is dominating the Romanian presidential race with 40.96% of the vote—nearly double his closest rival. George-Crin-Laurențiu Antonescu trails far behind at 21.47%, followed by Nicuşor-Daniel Dan at 17.95%. Simion’s lead is powered by over 2.4 million votes, already outpacing Antonescu by 1.15 million. If the trend holds, this could be a landslide. Source: Official Results

Overnight, Politico is reporting that Nicuşor Dan came in second. 

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We have a euractiv report below from 9pm. Here is Politico at the same hour —

Romanian election exit polls: Hard-right Trump fan George Simion wins first round

BUCHAREST — George Simion, the hard-right leader of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians, is projected to win the first round of Romania’s presidential election, with more than 30 percent of the vote, according to exit polls.

It was not immediately clear which candidate would place second, with establishment figurehead Crin Antonescu and centrist Bucharest Mayor Nicușor Dan battling to face Simion in the runoff. Former Prime Minister Victor Ponta is set to finish in fourth place, the exit polls say.

🇷🇴 Exit polls for the first round of the presidential elections in Romania 2025:

Exit poll I (CURS)

George Simion 33.1%
Crin Antonescu 22.9%
Nicușor Dan 20.9%
Victor Ponta 15%
Elena Lasconi 4%

Info: Exit polls can be highly inaccurate, so take them with a large grain of salt pic.twitter.com/rYw3DBMcRF

— Daily Romania (@daily_romania) May 4, 2025

🇷🇴‼️🚨 George Simion has won the first round of Romania’s presidential election rerun

He runs only because they banned Georgescu from running!

How will they ban George now? The people clearly want change and vote anti establishment! pic.twitter.com/Z3qTzDBc07

— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) May 4, 2025

Simion speaks in English —

🇷🇴 George Simion calls out attempted voter fraud by the Romanian government:

Citizens who have been dead for years were included on electoral lists, raising concerns that the Romanian government might use their identities to add votes for their preferred candidate https://t.co/LICNQQQOGG

— Daily Romania (@daily_romania) May 4, 2025

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BUCHAREST – Romania is heading for a deeply polarised presidential election run-off after Sunday’s first round exit polls suggested a surging far right candidate should face a pro-European moderate.

George Simion, leader of the nationalist Alliance for the Union of Romanians-party (AUR), is projected to secure place in the second round of the presidential election, according to preliminary results released on Sunday night.

Simion, who only placed fourth in the annulled presidential elections last November, has won the most votes with around 30% according to exit polls, outperforming several mainstream candidates.

He is likely to face centrist coalition candidate, Crin Antonescu from the National Liberal party, whom exit polls suggested had won around 23%.

Turnout is estimated at 53%, with an estimated 9.5 million people casting their ballot.

The run-off, scheduled for May 18, is expected to be fiercely contested.

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Simion cast his vote on Sunday morning alongside Georgescu. “The time has come to reclaim our country from the scoundrels,” declared Georgescu, whom Simion has said he would appoint prime minister if victorious.

If the result suggested by exit polls is confirmed, it would set up a high-stakes second round that will determine Romania’s future direction on foreign policy, judicial reform and relations with the European Union, as well as the country’s support for Ukraine.

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Charles Szumski contributed reporting from Paris.

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Featured image source: https://www.politico.eu/article/romanian-election-exit-polls-george-simion-hard-right/

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