Right-wing candidate Calin Georgescu has taken the lead in opinion polls ahead of new presidential elections in Romania
Calin Georgescu, the right-wing frontrunner in November’s first round of Romania’s presidential election that was then annulled, is taking the lead ahead of the new balloting scheduled for May, a fresh survey suggests.
A critic of NATO and the EU and a staunch opponent of sending aid to Ukraine, Georgescu topped the first-round vote in November with 22.94%, beating liberal leftist and social democrat candidates. Romania’s Constitutional Court promptly annulled the election ahead of the second-round vote, citing intelligence documents alleging ‘irregularities’ in Georgescu’s performance.
According to the survey conducted by pollster Avangarde, Georgescu is expected not only to retain the leading position but actually to perform better than during the scrapped election. The poll sampled some 1,354 Romanians, representing…
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