Final week, simply earlier than midnight on Sunday, an vital piece of reports unfold shortly all over the world: The hard-right candidate George Simion has been defeated, democracy in Romania is secure, and the liberal, pro-European mayor of Bucharest, Nicusor Dan, will be the next president of Romania.
One other-important piece of reports adopted, which got here as a shock to many Romanian observers however was not as broadly reported internationally: Romania’s ethnic Hungarians and Moldovan residents who additionally maintain Romanian passports voted in report numbers for Nicusor Dan, making a decisive contribution to his victory.
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