Romania Election: Candidate neck-and-neck-pranic results-DW-05/2025

The exit poll supported the Mayor Niksor Dan of Bukharest to win the runoff of Sunday’s presidential presidential.

The E-EU Centrist was ahead with 54.9%, the exit poll suggested, where it was at 45.1%at 45.1%, the hard-right rival George Simian.

Official results are expected to be later in Sunday or early hours of Monday.

Elections have been closed during the runoff of Romania’s presidential election, where Hard Right candidate George Simian is facing EU Bukharest Mayor Niksor Dan.

France has said that the authorities had said “completely baseless allegations” about the intervention in Romania’s presidential election.

In terms of a statement by Telegram founder Pavel Durov, French Category asked everyone to use responsibility and Romanian democracy to use Axis’s allegations and Romanian democracy, “claiming that a Western European country was not named, but France said, but France asked for” silent orthodox voices “.

The French Foreign Ministry mentioned that the first round of electroplalets in December was canceled by Russia amidst an electoral violation and intervention report.

“In this context, recent allegations against France are only one twist from the real threats of intervention that targeted Romania,” the ministry said.

The Ministry in 2007 emphasized the support of France for Romania in its European Union’s approval, as well as militically.

“Lying about France, insulting it, breaking this history,” the ministry posted.

Romania said that it was arguing on social media platforms, including Telegram during the presidential election, “a viral campaign of fake news”.

The Foreign Ministry spokesman said in a statement on X, “During Romania’s ongoing presidential elections, we again see the identity of Russian intervention,” A statement on X states that a viral campaign is aimed at influencing the election process “.

“This was expected and the authorities rejected fake news.”

A statement after a post by Telegram founder Pavel Durov claimed that he did not name a Western European nation (but suggested that France was there) asked the stage to “silent conservative voice” in Romania.

Pavel Durov, the founder of the Telegram messaging app, claimed on Sunday that the forum was approached by a Western European government, asking that “to silence the conservative voices in Romania before today’s presidential elections.”

Although he did not name the government, he posted an emoji of a baguet.

“I refused flatly,” Durov wrote in a post on stage. “Telegram wants the freedom of Romanian users not to be banned or their political channels should be blocked.”

The founder of Telegram argued that democracy cannot be defended by “destroying”.

“You cannot fight ‘election intervention’ by intervening in elections,” Durov wrote. “You have either speech and freedom of fair elections – or not you.”

In the first round of the Romanian presidential election, Nayak did what after reports of electoral violation and intervention by Russia last year. Kremlin denied the allegations.

Russian-born, Dubai-based Durov was detained in France last year, which was in the midst of crimes related to telegram-linked child pornography, drug smuggling and fraud transactions.

Durov returned to Dubai in March. Hey any wrong thing.

Official election data has shown that more than 4.6 million people – 25% eligible voters – had voted for the afternoon (0900 UTC).

Polling station 7 was opened locally and closed at 9 pm

Abroad, a resident of 750,000 Romanians, has voted outside the open country on Friday after a special polling station.

In the last presidential election, Nayak, in November, looked at Kalin Zoroscu, the political outsider of Russia, Russia’s political outsider, on top of the first round.

The vote was later quashed by the Constitutional Court of Romania, which found irregularities in the financial campaign and the organization.

The alleged electoral violations included thousands of passive social media accounts to spread the pro-zorojasku message as part of an “aggressive Russian hybrid attack”, which refuses Moscow.

In February, Romanian public prosecutors opened an inquiry in Georgsku, which was banned from re -standing in May.

George Simian, representing the Hard Right Alliance for The Unity of Romanians (AUR), is counted on support from dissatisfied Georoscu voters.

Many are not only concerned with high inflation and the cost of living in the country of the European Union, but are now influenced by the principles of conspiracy to cancel the original vote.

Simian has described its AUR party, which has been fully aligned with the promoter “Family, Nation, Faith and Freedom”, “Maga” [President Donald Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’] The movement “has not been denied to appoint Georgsku in the US and the Prime Minister should win them.

Simian’s Challenger is a 55 -year -old mathematician and former anti -corruption activist Bukharest Mayor Nicusore Dan who founded the Save Romania Union Party (USR) in 2016. He is a pro -European Union “honest Romania” on stage.

Accepting the issues faced by the Romanians, he said that the Eastern European country needs a president “who has a will and has the ability to improve the system.”

Elections were opened for the second round of Romanian presidential election, in which a high voter was expected to vote.

About 53% of the population, or 9.5 million people, voted in the first round on 4 May. Hard-Right candidate George Simian topped the first round, secured 41% of the votes.

He is now facing against the Mayor Niksor Dan, the Mayor of the European Union, who came second in the May 4 vote.

Pro-EEU Prime Minister Marcel Siolaku resigned after the first round, saying that his ruling coalition had no “validity” after the populist Simian secured more than 40% of the votes.

Romanian on Sunday, a new president and a supporter, is casting his ballots to choose a new president in a tense runoff between the EUU Center.

The race put the unity of the Romanian people against Bucharest Mayor Niksor Dan, or 38 -year -old leader of Hard Right Alliance George Simian for Aur.

Allegations of electoral violations and Russian intervention come to the vote months after cancellation of the previous election – in decades, Romania was immersed in her worst political crisis.

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