BUCHAREST, May 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Romania’s centrist Nicusor Dan, the mayor of Bucharest, has won Sunday’s presidential election run-off.
Near complete results showed Dan winning 54%, while his opponent, the hard-right Donald Trump admirer George Simion won 46%.
Dan, an independent who favors closer ties with Europe, had campaigned for an “honest” Romania.
Hard-right candidate George Simion has conceded defeat to his pro-EU rival Nicusor Dan.
“I would like to congratulate my opponent, Nicusor Dan,” Simion said in a video published on Facebook.
“He won the election and that was the will of the Romanian people.”
He promised to “continue our fight” for Romania and to put its 19 million people “first”.
Simion had previously contested exit polls that showed that Dan had won the election, claiming that he had secured 400,000 more votes than his centrist rival.
Simion, who leads the hard-right Alliance for the Unity of Romanians party, has criticized what he described as the EU’s “absurd policies” and proposed cutting military aid for Ukraine. — NNN-AGENCIES
