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Romanian Decisive Second-Round Election Heroes Europe’s ‘Super Sunday’ of Elections | Romania

Romanians are voting in a crucial presidential run-off that could drastically change the country’s strategic alignment and economic prospects. Voters in Poland and Portugal are also preparing to cast their ballots in a European electoral “super Sunday.”

The Romanian contest, the most important of the three, pits a brash, EU-critical populist against a centrist independent in a tightly-contested vote that analysts have deemed the most significant in the country’s post-communist history.

George Simion, a former soccer ultra and ultranationalist agitator who sees his far-right AUR party as a “natural ally” of the US MAGA movement, comfortably won the 4 May first round. Recent polls have shown the gap between the two candidates closing, with one survey putting them neck and neck and another placing Dan – who has described the vote as a battle between “a pro-western and an anti-western Romania” – ahead.

“The election isn’t just about the president of Romania but about its entire direction,” said Siegfried Mureşan, a liberal Romanian MEP. Simion would “weaken Europe’s unity, undermine support for Ukraine, and benefit only Vladimir Putin,” he added.

In Poland, 13 contenders are vying to be the country’s next head of state in the first round of presidential elections, with the centrist mayor of Warsaw, Rafał Trzaskowski, a senior member of prime minister Donald Tusk’s Civic Coalition, the front-runner.

In Portugal, a third snap general election in three years is taking place after the center-right prime minister, Luís Montenegro, triggered and lost a confidence vote in parliament over questions about his family’s business activities.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/18/romanian-run-off-the-most-crucial-on-europes-super-sunday-of-elections

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