Far-right Trump fan wins first round of Romania’s rerun presidential election, exit polls suggest
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Sun, 04 May 2025 21:58:17 +0300

George Simion of AUR party opposes military aid to Ukraine, has vilified EU leaders and will face a centrist in runoff voteAn ultranationalist who opposes military aid to Ukraine, has vilified the EUs leaders, and calls himself Donald Trumps natural ally has won the first round of Romanias rerun presidential vote and will face a centrist in the runoff, early estimates predict.Initial projections after polling stations closed on Sunday showed George Simion, whose farright Alliance for the Union of Romanians AUR began as an antivax movement during the pandemic, comfortably in the lead on between 30 and 33 of the vote.
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