The current mayor of Bucharest and independent candidate, Nicusor Dan, has been imposed this Sunday to the ultra -nationalist George Simion in the second round of the presidential elections of Romania, according to two polls at the foot of the urn, a result that is interpreted as a confirmation of the country’s attachment to the European Union. The democopic company progresses gives Dan 54.9% compared to 45.1% of its opponent, while Curs gives a 54.1% to the proeuropean and 45.9% to the ultra -rightist.
With a lot of emotion and concern, the Romanians have turned early this Sunday to vote in the second round of the presidential elections, which in the first instance won two weeks ago the ultra -rightist George Simion, with 41% of the scrutiny.
Until four in the afternoon (an hour less in Spain), 47% of the electorate had deposited their ballot, compared to 35% of May 4 at that same time. The growth of participation has greatly contributed the strong pull of the diaspora, which began to vote on Friday. With the still provisional data, 1,299,960 people have exercised their right to vote from abroad, 75% more than in the first round.
These elections, qualified as the most important of the democratic era, since they will resolve the geopolitical future of the country, had to repeat themselves after a proruso and extremist candidate, Calin Georgescu – which has sponsored simion – was imposed on the first envite in November and the Constitutional Court annulled the process by alleged Russian interference. This triggered a political implosion in this country in Eastern Europe that has also put on the European Union on guard.
“I have voted for a change that brings prosperity, not for adventure and discourage investments; on the European road, not for isolation; by a society in which you can dialogue and in which we are not divided,” said Dano Broking the nine in the morning after exercising his right to vote in an electoral school in Fagares, his hometown, located 240 kilometers from the capital.
He was more early in Simion, who declares himself an admirer of the US president, Donald Trump, and has claimed that he wants to align in Brussels with Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán. “I have voted against the injustices committed against the Romanian people, I have voted against the inequalities and humiliations to which our sisters and brothers were subjected and here in the current borders and everywhere, I have voted against abuse and poverty, against whom they despise us all, but also for our future to be decided only by the Romanians,” said the candidate, who deposited his ballot Calin Georgescu, on a section on the outskirts of Bucharest.
“I have voted for the Romanian family in which the words mother and father are holy, for our country here and everywhere, that needs love, cure and reconcile,” said Georgescu, who is being investigated for electoral fraud.
“I hope that the fight against hatred and manipulation wins; I want a free, democratic Romania, where we can contradict ourselves in a civilized way,” says Cristina, a student of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering of Bucharest. He has been waiting for more than half an hour to vote at the Electoral College located in the Regie Complex, the University Campus.
“I vote for the values with which I have grown up, respect and European course,” continues this young woman, who looks proudly around her by the mobilization that her generation is leading. “It is a crucial moment for us, we cannot depart from Europe,” says María, a chemical engineering student, while hopefully while pointing out the long tail of people who wish to vote.
“We are interested in the future of Romania, we do not lose the hope that the country must continue advancing,” explains Alex, a history professor, at his exit from the Spire Haret Institute, in the center of Bucharest, where many citizens also expect patiently. “Indifferently who is president, we must be happy because we have expressed our will,” he adds. Beside him, Raluca is more skeptical with simion voters. “Many say they don’t vote for fear, but they will do it because they are fed up with the current political class, which has been ruling for more than a decade,” says this accountant of a foreign company.
For Cristian Pre. “The express support of high Russian positions and Alexander Dugin (the ideologist of President Vladimir Putin) to Georgescu has changed the objective of the elections, since Russia had never been involved in Romania’s electoral processes so far, he had never supported a candidate for the State Headquarters.”
The political scientist, who was Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign, emphasizes that Romania had enjoyed a healthy democratic alternation until 2012, with a party in power and his opponent in the opposition. But, since then, the two main formations – the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the National Party (NLP) – sealed an alliance that has monopolized the governments and caused that the alternatives have stopped the birth of other formations. “Nicusor created La Unión Savar Romania (USR) in 2016 with Europeanist ideas, while George Simion co -founded in 2019 the formation of the extreme right Alliance for the Union of the Romanians (Aur), which has combined the nostalgic both of communism and the Romanian fascism of the interwar period,” shredded preda.
In addition, it warns of four scenarios that it closets of “apocalyptic” if Simion arrives at the Cotroceni Palace, headquarters of the Presidency. First, it would be the appointment of Georgescu as Prime Minister. “This character, who speaks of promoting the Romanian economy through the horse industry, would create an important economic crisis due to their lack of knowledge and unorthodox ideas.” In a second, he would force his designation as chief of the Executive: “If Georgescu is not chosen in 60 days, the Parliament – where the forces of the extreme right add up to 32% of the seats – could dissolve and force to go to an early legislative elections.”
Thirdly, Simion wants to organize a referendum in which Romanians can determine whether the decision of the Constitutional Court to cancel the first round of the presidentials in November was correct. “If they win that they should not be canceled, it would be held again allegedly to return to democratic life,” he says. And, as a last scenario, another plebiscite has proposed to change the country from a republic to a monarchy, a procedure that the Constitution does not allow, according to preda, but believes that simion could even go over the decisions of the Supreme Court and sign a decree that imposes it.
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