(5 May 2025)
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Bucharest – 5 May 2025
1. Various of downtown Bucharest
2. Various of newspaper stand showing headlines about election result
3. SOUNDBITE (Romanian) Professor Andrei Taranu, political analyst:
"Probably those in the US are thrilled by the result of this vote, they assumed it because the Friday before Sunday’s election, Romania was taken out of the Visa Waiver programme. We were on a sort of ‘get eaten list’, now Romania was removed completely, exactly as if a signal from the Washington administration that they want a different reality in Romania and more of a partition from the EU."
4. Various of newspapers
5. SOUNDBITE (Romanian) Professor Andrei Taranu, political analyst:
“For the countries in western Europe, in Paris, Madrid, Berlin, the result sends a very bad signal because we see that a part of central and eastern Europe is tending to move away from the European project. Maybe this won’t happen very fast, but it’s clear that 45 to 53% of Romanians no longer support this project and look at a rather independent perspective of the Nicolae Ceausescu (former Romanian leader) type: (that) others should not get involved in the internal affairs of the country, a thing that’s very bad news for the remaining 47% of Romanians.”
6. Newspaper stand
7. Various of people walking in streets
8. SOUNDBITE (Romanian) Constantin (no last name given), local resident:
“The result seems to me disastrous. Fifty five percent of the electoral mass voted towards Russia and this is a disaster. I don’t see how Nicusor (Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan) will win against (George) Simion, who gathers Calin Georgescu’s votes. This means that propaganda of a certain type was stronger than any EU one."
9. People walking in street
10. SOUNDBITE (Romanian) Constantin (no last name given), local resident:
“It (result) is very bad because there’s an incredible alliance between (U.S. President, Donald) Trump and Putin, to our disadvantage. For all of Europe’s detriment, not only Romania’s. All of the EU is in the collimator.”
11. Various of people walking in streets
12. SOUNDBITE (Romanian) Mihaela Minu, economics professor:
“It’s a worrying result, but I hope it’ll be like a wake-up call in the 12th hour.”
13. Mid of traffic
14. SOUNDBITE (Romanian) Mihaela Minu, economics professor:
"We have to choose between an independent that assumes the EU way, that fights for democracy and proves through action that they’re trying to take Bucharest and the country on its (EU’s) path. On the other side, we have someone who has a travel ban to two countries, someone with a sovereign and nationalist speech and who has no solutions."
15. Various of downtown Bucharest
STORYLINE:
Romanians woke up to the news on Monday hard-right nationalist George Simion had decisively won the first round of the country’s presidential election redo.
Simion will face a pro-Western reformist in a pivotal runoff in two weeks that could reshape the European Union and NATO member country’s geopolitical direction.
Simion, the 38-year-old leader of the Alliance for the Unity of Romanians, or AUR, far outpaced all other candidates in the polls with 40.96% of the vote, according to official electoral data, after all votes were counted from Sunday’s election.
In second place was reformist Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan with 20.99%.
Last year’s election was annulled after the far-right outsider Calin Georgescu topped the first round, following allegations of electoral violations and Russian interference, which Moscow has denied.
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