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George Simion rejects the exit ballot quickly after it’s launched, says he’s forward within the presidential vote.
Centrist Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan, who has pledged to clamp down on corruption and is staunchly pro-European Union and -NATO, is on track to win the presidential election in Romania.
Exit polls indicated that Dan was forward with 54.9 p.c of Sunday’s votes. His rival, hard-right nationalist George Simion, was at 45.1 p.c.
Simion rejected the exit ballot quickly after it was launched, saying his depend estimates have him at 400,000 votes greater than Dan.
Dan had campaigned on a pledge to struggle rampant corruption and maintain Romania firmly throughout the European mainstream.
Turnout was considerably increased in Sunday’s run-off and is anticipated to play a decisive function within the consequence.
Official outcomes are anticipated to return in in a while Sunday.
The rerun of the election was held after the cancellation of November’s presidential vote plunged Romania into its worst political disaster in a long time.
Romania’s political panorama was thrown into turmoil when a prime courtroom annulled the earlier election, wherein far-right outsider Calin Georgescu topped the first-round polls after allegations of electoral violations and Russian interference, which Moscow denied.
Simion appeared alongside Georgescu at a Bucharest polling station on Sunday and instructed reporters that he voted towards the “humiliations to which our sisters and brothers have been subjected”.
“We voted towards abuses and towards poverty,” he stated. “I voted for our future to be determined solely by Romanians, for Romanians and Romania. So assist us God!”
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