(16 May 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bucharest, Romania – 11 May 2025
1. Romanian presidential candidate Nicusor Dan walking on stage
2. Various top shots of rally
3. SOUNDBITE (Romanian) Nicusor Dan, Romanian presidential candidate:
"We need to rebuild this country, we need to project hope. And we need, from May 19, a united Romania so that its people will be able to face the challenges inside and outside the country."
4. Various of crowd
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Bucharest, Romania – 2 May 2025
5. Various of electoral banners showing candidates Nicusor Dan and George Simion
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Bucharest, Romania – 14 May 2025
6. Books on shelf
7. SOUNDBITE (Romanian) Andrei Taranu, Romanian National School of Political and Administrative Studies professor of politics:
“A quarantine period for Romania is due to happen next, regardless of who becomes president. It’ll either be a quarantine from the U.S. side regarding Nicusor Dan or a quarantine from the EU regarding George Simion."
8. Books on shelf
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Bucharest, Romania – 13 May 2025
9. AUR leader George Simion arriving at electoral debate where he was supposed to be talking to his counterpart Nicusor Dan who didn’t take part
10. Various of failed debate
11. SOUNDBITE (Romanian) George Simion, AUR party leader:
"George Simon is here in order for us to go back to constitutional order, to normality, to democracy, to the will of the Romanian people. And if there’s one partner who you want to work with… well that partner is represented by economic agents and the state of Romanian economy."
12. Simion on stage
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Bucharest, Romania – 14 May 2025
13. Books on shelf
14. SOUNDBITE (Romanian) Andrei Taranu, Romanian National School of Political and Administrative Studies professor of politics:
“The problems here will be mainly of a financial nature: the Social Democrats, through the former PM Ciolacu who resigned, left the country in an absolute interim period. This created the premises of a political fight between Social Democrats and far-right AUR and all this being underneath the presidential elections. All these create further societal tension, hence the sensation of the end of an era, the end of a world."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bucharest, Romania – 2 May 2025
15. Various of main entrance to Cotroceni Presidential Palace in Bucharest
STORYLINE:
Romania braces for a high-stakes presidential runoff this weekend between two starkly different candidates: hard-right nationalist frontrunner George Simion, and pro-Western reformist and incumbent Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan, as a geopolitical choice between East or West.
The tense vote comes as Romania is gripped by a deep political crisis after a top court voided the previous election in which the far-right outsider Calin Georgescu topped the first round following allegations of electoral violations and Russian interference, which Moscow has denied.
After coming fourth in last year’s canceled race, Simion, the 38-year-old leader of the Alliance for the Unity of Romanians, or AUR, backed Georgescu who was banned in March from standing in the redo.
Simion then surged to frontrunner in the May 4 rerun after becoming the standard-bearer for the hard right.
Simion’s AUR party, which proclaims to stand for “family, nation, faith, and freedom,” rose to prominence in a 2020 parliamentary election, and has since doubled its support to become the second-largest party in the Romanian legislature.
To his critics, Simion is a pro-Russian extremist who threatens Romania’s longstanding membership of the European Union and NATO.
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