Despite a cancelled election and a different candidate, it's the same outcome in the re-run of the first round of Romania's presidential election. The pro-Trump, Eurosceptic George Simion took 40 percent of the vote ahead of the May 18 runoff. Simion – whose party sits in the same voting bloc as Giorgia Meloni’s in the European Parliament – skipped the usual victory speech at campaign headquarters to instead air a pre-recorded message where he pledged allegiance to banned pro-Russian candidate Călin Georgescu, who back in November, thanks to a foreign-backed TikTok campaign, went from unknown to favourite.
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