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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    351 month ago

    Good job Romanians, let’s watch how this Dan guy does in other aspects of politics, and keep him accountable

  • Hanrahan
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    11 month ago

    Centeist ? The slow drift to fascism as they appease the rabid right and dont work towards the issies that really need solvong ;(

    Fuxk voters

    • @[email protected]
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      411 month ago

      It’s been a good run lately, we’ve eked out wins in Germany, France, Canada, Australia, Croatia, and Romania

      • @[email protected]
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        541 month ago

        Beware of moderate political parties trying to appease the far-right with their policies if they get into power. It’s happened in the UK.

      • @[email protected]
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        241 month ago

        The CDU should barely be considered a win in Germany. They pave the road that the AfD will walk down. Conservatives make everything worse and fascists thrive in poor conditions.

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            41 month ago

            That’s sorta my point, it shouldn’t be seen as a start. We can agree that the AfD would be an immediate loss, they would make things immediately worse and the country would very quickly decline for everyone but the elite who would be insulated from their own policies.

            I need people in Germany to see the CDU as a slow loss, because they make things worse at a slower time scale, and the country will continue to decline under their guidance for everyone but the elite who will benefit from their policies.

            The AfD losing is good. The CDU winning over the AfD winning is better. But both scenarios are still a loss, and they are the signals that the system is organically producing worse results and it’ll continue to increase the magnitude of those poor results until we improve the system.

            • @[email protected]
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              11 month ago

              Yeah as an American that’s basically what I’ve been saying for the last 20 years. Now we are at the part where the worse results either become apparent or we lose our democracy.

      • @[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

  • Zagorath
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    31 month ago

    The article shows a photo of voting booths with curtains, with neighbouring booths coloured like the Romanian flag.

    Do we have any Romanians here? Can you confirm whether or not they actually do this? That’s honestly hilariously awesome if so.

    • skye
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      51 month ago

      I suppose it depends on the building, where I went to vote (and most places i’ve seen in live coverages) just had plain blueish curtains

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    641 month ago

    Can breathe a sigh of relief for another year or so… Until the next election in a EU country.

    Viktor Orban is not going to be around forever, Russia is desperate to get more obstructionists into power in the EU.

    If im not Mistaken, Czechia is the next to have an election where a Euroskeptic , Pro Trump/Putin , or Isolationist candidate is in the running and has a chance? Someone is welcome to educate me on that.

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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      261 month ago

      Until the next election in a EU country.

      Viktor Orban is not going to be around forever

      He’s up for reelection in April 2026, and he’s going to lose badly as it looks like now. Orange line is his party. And this summary is skewed most likely and overestimates him, as it takes his own polls into account, you can see that big outlier orange dot over everything on the right. In the current fucked up system, a lead like this is almost enough to rewrite the constitution.

      (Legend is a bit confusing, it’s TISZA getting ahead, not MSZP, luckily.)

      Hungary has hope now.

      Sauce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2026_Hungarian_parliamentary_election

      • @[email protected]
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        201 month ago

        nothing is certain.

        Look at what happened in the last 12 months in Canada, and how the Conservatives went from unbeatable, a 25-35% lead, to ultimatley losing

        • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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          131 month ago

          You’re right, but I’ll take this over anything in the past 30 years. And it will get messy, Orbán will not leave peacefully. But he is making mistake after mistake. These polls don’t reflect taking the side of the losing Hungarophobic (no, really) Romanian Nazi presidential candidate Simion - TISZA leadership are literally walking 300km to Oradea from Budapest in a unifying gesture as we speak. And a lot of other things that have happened, like the recent scandal when it was revealed they were / are still trying to start an own invasion of Ukraine. Also Trump.

          The DK for example just imploded and are likely to disappear. MM has conceded the election in advance in favour of TISZA.

          That said, Orbán can and will change the election system in the coming year, and there is a lot of shit still coming. But something has broken in the system in Hungary in the past 6 months that can’t be rebuilt as it was.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 month ago

        and he’s going to lose badly as it looks like now.

        we were assuming that for how many cycles now?