The recount of votes in Romania during the first round of the presidential elections confirmed that the the pro-Russian Calin Georgescu wins over his rivals, while the votes of the diaspora place the the right-wing candidate Elena Lasconi is second.
According to data from the Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP) and with a count of 99.92%, Georgescu obtained 22.94% of the votes, followed by Lasconi and the current social democratic prime minister Marcel Ciolacu, both with 19.16%, with a difference of 700 votes in favor of the center-right candidate.
Thus, Ciolacu, who before the elections was considered the favorite, could be excluded from the second roundon December 8.
The biggest surprise on Sunday was the victory of Georgescu, a candidate whom polls saw him below 5% and he almost didn’t appear on TV and traditional media during the campaign.
Apparently, Georgescu, with demonstrations anti-Semites And unfavorable positions towards NATO, He managed to conquer many of his fellow citizens thanks to social networks, mainly on Tik-Tok, with videos that have gone viral.
“The Romanian people cried out for peace this evening, and they did it very loudly,” Georgescu said last night, according to the portal romaniatv.net.
The first-round winner added that he had lit “the candle of hope and courage to be Romanian.” The Romanian people have chosen to no longer kneelso as not to be humiliated.
“Big surprise”
The local press talks about it “a big surprise”of a “candidate invisible to the press” and the Libertatea.ro portal cites the Russian media which welcomed the victory of a “supporter of an alliance with Russia”.
In any case, the authorities have not finished counting the votes cast abroad.
THE bet in the elections, it was 52.55%, since more than 9.4 million Romanians out of the 18 million eligible to vote went to the polls.
He December 8Romanians will decide who will be the future head of state between the two candidates having obtained the most votes.
Georgescu’s unexpected advance opens new questions on the political panorama, not only regarding the question of who will be the future head of state of Romania – what will be decided on December 8 between the two candidates most voted – but also with regard to the legislative elections. elections next Sunday.
