(18 May 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mogoșoaia, Romania – 18 May 2025
1. AUR party leader George SImion casting ballot
2. SOUNDBITE (Romanian) George Simion, AUR party leader, presidential candidate:
“I voted against injustice done to Romanian people, against inequities and humiliation that our sisters and brothers endured both here and abroad.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Fagaras, Romania – 18 May 2025
3. Nicusor Dan and his wife exiting polling station
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicusor Dan, presidential candidate:
“It’s not my first campaign and I never make predictions before the election, so the Romanians will decide."
5. Dan leaving
STORYLINE:
Presidential candidates in Romania are casting ballots Sunday in a tense presidential runoff between a hard-right nationalist and a pro-Western centrist, in a high-stakes election rerun that could determine the geopolitical direction of the European Union and NATO member country.
Sunday’s race between frontrunner George Simion, the 38-year-old leader of the hard-right Alliance for the Unity of Romanians, or AUR, and incumbent Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan comes months after the cancelation of the previous election plunged Romania into its worst political crisis in decades.
As he exited a polling station, Dan said “the Romanians will decide. There is a good hope for structural change but it depend on what happens today ”
Voting at approximately the same time near Bucharest, AUR party leader, George Simion said “I voted against injustice dine to Romanian people, against inequities and humiliation that our sisters and brothers endured with here and abroad."
Local polls opened at 7.00 a.m. local time (0400GMT) and will close at 9.00 p.m. (1800GMT). Romanians abroad have been able to vote since Friday at polling stations set up in other countries, and more than half a million have already cast ballots.
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