Many EU leaders had been undoubtedly relieved when the results of the Romanian presidential election was introduced on the night time of May 18. Nicusor Dan, who had campaigned on a platform of pro-Western stability, defeated the firebrand populist and Eurosceptic George Simion. Indeed, Dan achieved a shocking reversal, after closely shedding the primary spherical. But Simion nonetheless received greater than 5 million votes, or round 46 %, which highlighted a deep fracture in Romanian society.
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