Tämä menee politiikan puolelle, mutta Romaniassa uusitun presidentinvaalien ensimmäisen kierroksen ylivoimainen voittaja on äärioikeistolainen George Simion. Mikäli Romanian nykyiseen Eu-myönteiseen politiikkaan tulee suuri muutos, sillä voi olla seurauksia paitsi myös koko EU:lle, myös Nokian renkaille. Toinen kierros järjestetään 2 viikon kuluttua.
An ultranationalist who opposes military aid to Ukraine, has vilified the EU’s leaders, and calls himself Donald Trump’s “natural ally” has won the first round of Romania’s rerun presidential vote and will face a centrist in the runoff, as vote counting nears its end.
With 99% of votes counted late on Sunday, George Simion, whose far-right Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) began as an anti-vax movement during the pandemic, was comfortably in the lead on a projected 40.5% of the vote.
The two highest-scoring candidates are scheduled to face each other in a second-round runoff on 18 May, nearly six months after the original ballot was cancelled amid evidence of an alleged “massive” Russian influence campaign.