Pro-Western candidate Nicusor Dan has unexpectedly beaten hard-right populist George Simion in the Romanian election.

Mr Simion, 38, and his rival - a centrist who’s mayor of Bucharest - faced off in the second round of the contest.

According to the official tally, Mr Dan was leading by nearly nine percentage points with more than 98% of the votes counted.

They aren’t enough votes remaining for Mr Simion to make a comeback.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 month ago

      Centrists won’t address the actual issues that cause fascism to fester. Instead centrists will pivot right to out right the fascists.

      • Hanrahan
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        21 month ago

        Indeed, looking at your Portugal, Australia, UK, NZ, Canada etal