Independent candidate Kelin Georgescu won the first round of the presidential elections in Romania.
Oku.Az reports that these data were placed on the website of the country’s Permanent Electoral Administration after processing 100% of the ballots.
Georgescu received 22.94% of the votes. Elena Lasconi, leader of the center-right Union for the Liberation of Romania party, came in second place with 19.18% of the vote. The president of the Social Democratic Party, Prime Minister Marcel Ciolaku, is in third place with 19.15% of the votes.
None of the candidates managed to gather the 50%+1 of the votes necessary for an outright victory. Thus, the second round of elections with the participation of Georgescu and Lasconi will be held on December 8.
It should be noted that Kelin Georgescu, 62, who is called the “Trump of Romania”, distrusts the country’s participation in NATO and supports the normalization of relations with Russia.
