(19 May 2025)
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Bucharest – 19 May 2025
1. Nicusor Dan, elected president, approaching podium to talk to media and supporters
2. Various of crowds in the street, including people holding a giant EU flag
3. SOUNDBITE (Romanian) Nicusor Dan, elected president of Romania: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON SHOT1 AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT2&4++
“This is your victory, you know… this is the victory of thousands of people who campaigned these days, who believed that Romania can change in the right direction. Don’t ever forget the force you showed these weeks because, together we will need it when we have things to surpass.”
4. Various of supporters chanting
5. Dan leaving
STORYLINE:
Pro-European Union candidate Nicusor Dan has won Romania’s closely watched presidential runoff against a hard-right nationalist, nearly complete electoral data shows.
A huge turnout Sunday played a key role in the tense election that many viewed as a geopolitical choice between East or West.
The race pitted front-runner George Simion, the 38-year-old leader of the hard-right Alliance for the Unity of Romanians, or AUR, against Dan, the incumbent mayor of Bucharest.
It was held months after the cancelation of the previous election plunged Romania into its worst political crisis in decades.
After 10.7 million of 11.6 million votes were counted, Dan was ahead with 54.19%, while Simion trailed at 45.81%, according to official data.
In the first-round vote on May 4, Simion won almost double the votes as Dan, and many local surveys had predicted he would secure the presidency.
But in a swing that appeared to be a repudiation of Simion’s more skeptical approach to the EU, which Romania joined in 2007, Dan picked up almost 900,000 more votes to solidly defeat his opponent in the final round.
Thousands gathered outside Dan’s headquarters near Bucharest City Hall to await the final results, chanting “Nicusor!”
Each time his lead widened as more results came in, the crowd, many waving EU flags, erupted into cheers.
"This is the victory of thousands of people who campaigned these days, who believed that Romania can change in the right direction," Dan told the jubilant crowd.
AP Video shot by Nick Dumitrache
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